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DETACHED STEATOMATOUS TUMOURS. 
About a week ago she was taking a journey with a heavy load, 
and, by some means or other, she fell, and had great difficulty in 
getting up. Soon afterwards she became lame in one of her legs, 
and, on tracing out the cause of the lameness, I found that por- 
tions of the thickened tendon of the flexor perforatus muscle had 
been ruptured and torn from their insertion on each of its sides 
a little above the fetlock joint and about the sesamoid bones, 
and there was effusion of lymph and blood around the parts. 
A REMARKABLE CASE OF DETACHED STEATOMATOUS 
TUMOURS IN THE ABDOMEN OF A SHEEP. 
By the same . 
“ Upon opening a slaughtered sheep, belonging to Mr. John 
Martin, of this town, last week, there were found four large 
lumps of fat unattached to the intestines by any ligature or sinew. 
The largest weighed above six pounds and a half, and the whole 
more than fourteen and a half pounds. In a few hours the fat 
congealed into hard suet ; and, on the largest lump being severed, 
it was found quite solid. The interior of the animal was per- 
fectly healthy, and the usual quantity of fat about the loins and 
kidneys. The circumstance exceeds any thing in the annals of 
the oldest butcher in Shrewsbury.” — Salopian Journal , March 
8th , 1843. 
In the 2d vol. of the Transactions of the Veterinary Medical 
Association, page 161, there is a case similar to the above, re- 
ported by Mr. W. C. Spooner, of Southampton, and which is the 
first that I recollect having seen an account of ; but Professor 
Spooner, in his remarks on that case, said, “it is not a very 
uncommon specimen, for we have in the museum many of a si- 
milar character ; and he had seen several cases where these tu- 
mours where floating loose in the abdomen.” Now I am inclined 
to think, with Mr* W. C. Spooner, that it is rather a “ singular” 
and an uncommon specimen ; for 1 can say, after having made 
upwards of two thousand post-mortem examinations, upon dif- 
ferent animals, during the last twenty years, I never met with 
one like it. Tumours of different kinds I have seen in the ab- 
domen ; but they have invariably been attached. 
Professor Spooner believes that these tumours have had an at- 
tachment to organized parts, but, from their weight or movement, 
they become detached. In the human being substances are fre- 
