A CASE OF MONSTROSITY. 
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In the last place, L have stated the obstacles it has had to sur- 
mount — yea, obstacles which we yet have, more or less, every 
day of our lives to contend against. 
As many of the subjects here detailed will be treated of in a 
future paper, I refrain from making in this place any concluding 
remarks. I shall, in my next, proceed to consider the present 
state of the science. 
MONSTROSITY: A CALF WITH SEVEN LEGS AND 
FIFTEEN CLAWS. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
In the month of July or August last, Mr. Whalley, of Carden, 
Cheshire, had a six-years old cow that exhibited symptoms of 
approaching parturition late at night. 
Towards midnight the people in attendance tried to take the 
calf away by force. It was a head presentation, and the calf 
was brought forward as far as half the body. 
They could not, however, get the calf away, and therefore they 
sent for Mr. Lanceley, farrier, of Mai pas, who arrived about four 
o’clock on the next morning. The method adopted by him in 
trying to get it away I know nothing of, except that it was ex- 
tracted by manual force, and that Mr. L. had fifteen men to 
assist him in pulling it away, and which it took four hours to 
effect. The cow appeared pretty well after the calf was re- 
moved. 
Mr. L. left soon after, and the next morning he sent his ap- 
prentice to see how she was, when he was informed that the cow, 
some few hours after Mr. L. left, threw her reid (uterus) down, 
and that a neighbouring farrier was sent for, who injured it very 
much, but could not return it. The cow was sinking fast, and 
the owner had her knocked on the head on the same day. 
Description of the Calf.— The colour w r as of a Devonshire brown, 
or what is called in this district, red all over, with the exception 
of a little under its belly and the tip of the left tail. The fore 
quarters were natural, and single as far as the back of the withers, 
where it divided into two perfect bodies and whole hind quarters, 
each with two legs and a tail. The hoofs of the two fore legs 
and the four hinder ones were black. They both possessed 
female generative organs. They were united further along under 
their sides than at the top of the back. On the top, at the 
commencement of their division, there grew out another leg, which 
appeared to be a fore one, and was perfect as far as from the 
shoulder. It projected straight out as far as the knee, between 
