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DESCRIPTION OF SINGULAR MONSTROSITY IN A 
LAMB. 
By Mr. A. S. Copeman, Walpole. 
On the 2d of April in the present year, one of the ewes of Mr. 
Jacon, ofWesthall, died in parturition. The post-mortem exami- 
nation discovered a singular mal-formed lamb. Its head and part 
of the neck were separated from the body at the vertebra dentata. 
The thorax was flat, having its longer axis from side to side. It 
contained neither lungs, heart, pericardium, or mediastinum. There 
was not even a single vestige of these organs. Nothing was in 
the thoracic cavity, but about six ounces of a serous transparent 
fluid which filled it. 
In the abdomen there was neither liver, spleen, nor pancreas, nor 
any of the stomachs. The intestines commenced in a kind of bulb 
near the left kidney, and were perfect. From the situation of the 
umbilicus, there projected a fine membranous sac, covered with innu- 
merable bloodvessels, and containing two pints of a serous transpa- 
rent fluid, which filled the abdomen. At its base was inserted the 
usual vessels from the mother, which spread over the sac, and formed 
the venous plexus of which I have spoken. The whole of the cel- 
lular membrane connected with the cutis was filled with serosity. 
The termination of the legs was singular — there was no division 
at the termination of the cannon bone, and each foot had but one 
phalange. 
A dry preparation of this monstrosity is now in my possession, 
and it will give me great pleasure to exhibit it to any medical or 
scientific gentlemen. 
THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY I, 1841. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
With pleasure and with pride we request the attention of our 
readers to the observations on the present Epidemic among Cattle, 
by Messrs. Wallis, Lepper, and Holmes. We select them from a 
mass of documents on the same subject, not as being superior to 
others, but for certain reasons which we will briefly state. 
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