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This I follow up with febrifuge medicine, bleeding a second 
time, if required. 
During the whole course of the disease, I stimulate the throat, 
neck, and breast with ammonia and turpentine, and generally 
think it good practice to rowel the breast. The skin and extremi- 
ties should be kept warm ; but air should be freely admitted into 
the patient’s box. 
Although an aperient is ordered at the commencement of the 
treatment^ absolute purging will be found to do harm. Should it 
make its appearance, it should be immediately checked, by taking 
away the patient’s water and mashes, and allowing him nothing 
but gruel to drink and hay to eat. 
W. Percivall. 
ACCOUNT OF A SINGULAR EMBRYO LAMB. 
By Mr. C. J. Green, V.S., Fareham. 
Having this morning seen what I consider an interesting 
case, I have forwarded to you the whole detail. It is the autopsy 
of a full-mouthed ewe. 
On making an incision along the linea alba through the abdo- 
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minal and recti muscles, there w r as presented to view a foetal 
lamb in the cavity of the abdomen, wholly deprived of any 
membranes — its back lying on the abdominal muscles, the sup- 
port or attachment being formed on the off-side, and effected by 
means of intervening bands of lymph from the cheek, and con- 
tinued backwards to the antero-spinous process of the ossa inno- 
minata, wholly enveloping the off-fore extremity : the union formed 
between the foetus and the peritoneal covering, at the inner sur- 
face of the off* abdominal muscles in the umbilical region, was its 
head ; the posterior parts extended as far back as the ensiform 
cartilage, and the uniting medium was very firm. The near side, 
from the third cervical vertebra, as far back as the os coccygis, 
with the other three extremities, were ijnbedded in the epiploon, 
or caul. The hind extremities were firmly fixed to each other, and 
also to the abdomen ; they were, in fact, immoveable. The fore 
extremities were attached to each other as far down as the carpus, 
and from the anterior surface of the carpus, by intervening lymph 
to the lower surface of the neck. 
The ewe has never shewn any unnatural symptoms, further 
than that she was barren last spring ; and it was previous to this 
that she was brought in contact with the ram. She was of the 
South-down breed. 
