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think, it would have been absolutely necessary to have performed 
tracheotomy, so as to have enabled her to respire during the ex- 
traction of it. 
There would have been a caution required in the removal of it, 
by the insertion of some hook or thread through it, so as to prevent 
the danger of its dropping into the trachea. Had it been removed, 
it is more than probable she would have continued to be a roarer, 
though in a slighter degree, from the abscess and thickening about 
the parts. 
Some seven or eight years ago I was requested by a veterinary 
surgeon in an adjoining town to examine a two-year-old colt, that 
was a roarer in consequence of having a large polypus in one of his 
nostrils. I was of opinion nothing would be of service but the ex- 
traction of it, and was requested to perform the operation. I cast 
him, slit up the nostril as far as I could, and with great difficulty 
cut it out piecemeal, during which he lost a great quantity of blood. 
The nostril was sewn up, and healed by the first intention : the 
colt was cured, and the polypus never grew again. 
CASES OF HERMAPHRODISM. 
By Mr. W. Wotton, Tiverton. 
On looking over the number of your valuable publication for 
December last, I see that mention is made by M. Vallot, at the Cen- 
tral Agricultural Society of France, of that curious malformation, 
the Hermaphrodite. Allow me to communicate two distinct cases 
of animals of this description, which have come under my immediate 
observation. 
The first is that of a pig, which was one of a farrow of thirteen. 
It was strong and healthy; but was killed by the sow lying on it 
when two days old. The owner, a respectable farmer in this neigh- 
bourhood, gave it to me after its death, and told me that he had 
seen it void its urine and faeces, which caused him to take parti- 
cular notice of it, as, until that time, he had believed it — from the 
appearance of the scrotum — to have been a perfect male. 
Immediately under the anus were a perfect vulva and vagina, 
as in a well-formed sow ; but underneath this were situated the 
testes as in a boar. 
Having doubted, at first, whether they were testes, and wishing 
to preserve the external organs, I cut the body in two, immediately 
behind the last rib, and having carefully removed the intestines, 
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