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TWIN LAMBS CONJOINED. 
I may add, that I avail myself of the combined advantages of 
the seated and unilateral shoe upon which to apply vulcanized 
India-rubber, for giving to the base of the frog a degree of support, 
and affording a yielding resistance to the voluntary action at the 
heels, of which I have previously spoken. 
Apologizing for this great encroachment upon your columns, 
I beg to subscribe myself, Sir, 
Your’s faithfully, 
W. G. Reeve, M.R.C.V.S. 
1, Elizabeth-street, Eaton-square. 
TWIN LAMBS CONJOINED — (Lusus Naturae). 
By Mr. GEORGE Lowther, M.R.C.S., 3, Nelson- street, Hull . 
December 17, 1849. 
Sir, — Should you deem the following extraordinary case of 
twin lambing (with sketch) sufficiently interesting for the pages of 
The Veterinarian, you are at liberty to publish it in your 
scientific Journal. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant. 
W. Percivall, Esq., 
Editor of “ The Veterinarian.” 
A few months ago a two-year-old ewe, the property of Mr. 
Thomas Dibb, jun., of Sporathy, near Holderness, in this county, 
produced a lamb, or rather twin lambs, preternaturally united at 
the thorax. This strange phenomenon or freak of Nature may be 
thus described : — One head, four ears, and two eyes; no mouth nor 
nostrils, nor the slightest mark indicative of their locality. From 
a sort of duplex thorax diverged, vis a vis, two separate carcasses, 
forming, together with eight fully developed legs, two distinct and 
perfectly natural lambs. This being the ewe’s first product, to 
facilitate the parturient process she was slaughtered. As respira- 
tion was impracticable, the lamb or lambs lost, of course, their vi- 
tality immediately after their separation from the mother. 
Mr. D. having forwarded the novelty for my inspection, I sub- 
join the following particulars: — Length of lamb, from centre of 
median line between the eyes to tip of os coccygis, twenty inches. 
Length of twin lamb, from junction with fellow to extremity of os 
coccygis, thirteen inches. 
