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ing us, of a more gentle and tractable nature ; the other, all force 
and violence, with but little intermission until the affair is over. 
1 have seen several mares force the foetus out while we have 
been attempting to remove a leg; but then the labours were of a 
moi'e premature kind than this, and the foetuses have been much 
smaller. The mares have done well. 
In thorough-bred mares the legs and necks of the foals are un- 
usually long, which renders it still more difficult to right them ; 
though it is not necessary that we bring the legs properly straight 
into the passage, since they may come easily away if doubled up 
at the knees. 
In Bell's Life in London, April 2d, 1843, it is stated, that 
the celebrated mare, the Queen of Trumps, the property of the 
Hon. E. M. St. Mostyn, winner of the Oaks and Great St. Leger, 
died at York on the 28th ult., giving birth to a filly foal. It was 
said to be a cross birth, and that no human aid could have saved 
her! 
Extraction of a Calf,— not to be felt outside. 
On the 17th of March, 1850, I was called in to a three 
year-old heifer, the property of W. Halstead Poole, Esq., of 
Terrick Hall, that shewed every symptom of parturition, with 
the exception that the calf could not be felt externally. The cow- 
man said he never had felt the calf; that she was not at her full 
time; but that for the last day or two some foetid discharge had 
come from her, and he feared all was not right ; consequently I was 
sent for. Like him, I could not feel the calf externally. She was 
well off at the hips, and strained a little. On introducing my 
hand, I found the os uteri moderately opened, but that the head 
and fore-legs were doubled back. These I soon put right, and ex- 
tracted the foetus, which was very small, without any difficulty. 
It was alive, but died soon after. 
Extraction of a dead Calf, six weeks over its time. 
On the night of the 3d of April, 1850, 1 was called in to attend 
a large aged cow, belonging to our rector, that shewed approaching 
symptoms of parturition. I was informed she had gone six weeks 
over her time, and the cowman feared that the calf was dead ; and, 
after examination, I was of the same opinion ; for I found it had 
