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in a manner imperceptibly, and fluctuated in intensity, being 
sometimes more evident than at others. It followed no hard 
day’s work or known injury. And it increased, though tardily, 
by degrees from first to last, and in the face of all kinds of treat- 
ment (to parts not affected), until at length it became intolerable. 
And so mysterious was its nature all the way through the case, 
that nobody, by the merest conjecture, ever hit upon its seat. 
And yet, when its seat and nature came to be developed and con- 
sidered, the symptoms appeared such as might have indicated it; 
and, moreover, inclined to the belief that there possibly might have 
been some connecting pathological link between it and the attack 
of influenza. One reason for so thinking was, that the influenzal 
attack happened in July, the lameness in August; another, that 
the influenza of that year had shewn a remarkable predisposition 
consequent upon it to such translations ; though against this 
opinion militated the absence of bursal swelling outside the af- 
fected joints, and of any deposit inside. After all, the case is 
not stripped altogether of its mystic vestment. Nevertheless, it 
is likely to prove so far useful to us, that, should we ever meet 
with a similar one, although we may be equally at a loss for a 
remedy for it, we may at least be in a situation to offer some sa- 
tisfactory diagnosis of its nature. 
UNNATURAL PRESENTATION IN A COW. 
By Mr. AlTCHISON, Shotley Bridge, Durham. 
Sir, — If you think the following case will be interesting to the 
readers of The Veterinarian, it is at your service. 
ABOUT four o’clock in the afternoon of the 15th of March, 
I was called to see a two-year-old heifer, that, as I was told, 
had been calving since morning. Upon examination, I found the 
foetus lying with its hind quarter towards the mouth of the uterus, 
and the tail protruding into the vagina. I immediately attempted 
to turn the foetus into its natural position : finding this, however, 
impossible, I tried to get hold of the hind feet, but this also failed, 
in consequence of their lying so far forward under the animal. 
I then proceeded to fasten a rope round the loins, with the in- 
tention of dragging the foetus away in this manner; but I soon 
found, from the largeness of the foetus, that nothing but embryotomy 
