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LUSUS NATURE IN A LAMB. 
of it. There had not been any considerable inflammation either 
of the substance or pleural covering of the lungs, but numerous tu- 
bercles, none of them of any considerable size, were scattered 
through the substance of the lungs, and many of which had gone 
on to suppuration. There was no enlargement of the mesenteric 
glands, nor any tumours attached to the mesentery. The tu- 
mours beneath the branches of the lower jaw did not adhere to 
or affect the bone, and they were become almost of a cartilagi- 
nous nature; the knife creaked as it passed through them. 
They appeared to be quite distinct from the submaxillary 
glands. 
The immediate causes of death were the inflammation of the 
liver, and the drain from the tumours. Might the iodine have 
prevented the enlargement of the mesenteric glands, or the growth 
of tumours on that membrane ? — might it have retarded the 
growth of the tubercles in the lungs ? — they were neither so large 
nor so numerous as they are generally found to be. The inflam- 
mation of the liver was of too intense a nature to be controlled 
by the iodine : might it have been increased by the agency of 
this drug ? To what period must we date its origin ? so far 
back as July or September ? and did the sub-acute inflamma- 
tion of the lungs commence at the same period ? After January 
there did not appear a symptom of hepatitis. 
Every character of phthisis was simulated. I did not dream 
of the state of the liver. So far at least this case is interesting, 
if not in tracing the origin of phthisis to some organic or func- 
tional lesion of the digestive system, yet exhibiting the close 
connexion between them, and, especially in those animals who 
cannot tell us the immediate seat of pain, the almost identity of 
symptoms; The connexion of the respiratory or the digestive 
affection, or both of them, with the strumous diathesis here so 
plainly developed, will not be quite lost sight of. Is the one 
a consequence of the other, or do they arise from one common 
cause ? 
A SINGULAR LUSUS NATURAE IN A LAMB. 
By Mr . B. Bull, Launceston. 
Perhaps the following extraordinary case of monstrosity in 
a foetal lamb may not be altogether unworthy a place in the pages 
of The Veterinarian. 
A ewe, the property of a respectable fanner, of St. Stephen’s, 
near Launceston, had apparently gone her full time, and pro- 
duced with some difficulty a lamb, of which 1 will endeavour to 
give a slight description. The body presented a sudden incur- 
