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THE ANATOMY OF THE 
gine that these, to a certain degree, will sympathize with the 
healthy and also the morbid state of the rectum, and that 
when it is inert, or asleep, or diseased, they also may be power- 
less too. Here is something like fact to establish a very 
important theory, and which will much influence our practice. 
Bees. 
Why should not the care of the veterinarian extend to every 
animal, which the Author of all has made susceptible of pleasure 
and of pain ? The bees pass the winter in a half torpid state, 
clustering together between the combs. If a warm day occurs, 
they revive, and consume a little of their store, and sometimes 
too often and too much, and it is exhausted before the flowers 
come again. Therefore it is, that, in the bee-master’s estimation, 
a cold spring, when few flowers have blown, is favourable to 
them as inducing them to sleep on longer, and until they can 
obtain the greater part of their provision abroad. Yet the spring 
must not be too cold, for the bee, once awake, never goes fairly to 
sleep again ; and that degree of cold which would harm him not 
in his full state of torpidity, may be injurious or fatal to him 
when he is half asleep and half awake. 
In the early part of the spring, therefore, the bee-master fre- 
quently examines his hives, and especially after a cold night. 
Are the little inmates clustering snugly together, or have some 
of them, many of them perhaps, loosened their hold, and fallen 
to the bottom? If so, their torpidity is changed to palsy, and 
their sleep will soon be, if it is not already, the sleep of death. 
Should he find the bottom of the hive thickly strewn with them, 
he wraps the hive warmly up, or he removes it to a more shelter- 
ed place. The first is the usual process, and generally sufficient; 
and the poor fellows below revive, and climb up the side of the 
comb, and cluster afresh. 
THE ANATOMY OF THE FORE FOOT OF THE OX. 
By Mr . W. C. Spooner, Southampton. 
[Continued from p. 109.] 
On removing the skin from the shank of the ox, we dis- 
cover that the tendons, ligaments, and vessels, are all covered 
by a ligamentous substance , which being very strong at the 
posterior part of the tendons, is then reflected between them 
and the suspensory ligaments, so as to form their sheath. This 
substance is continued down to the foot, and at the fetlock 
becomes increased into two firm and distinct parts, which being 
covered by the skin, here considerably thickened, and this 
