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MAL-CONFOiiMATION IN A COLT. 
with hernia unsound, although he may probably “ plod his weary 
way” for the term of his natural life without dying of strangu¬ 
lated hernia, or being killed by an accident to the part. I may, 
perhaps, here remark, that there is little difficulty in curing um¬ 
bilical hernia in foals or yearlings, by the proper adaptation of a 
bandage. 
I now take leave of this subject, fully assuring the editors and 
readers of The Veterinarian, that any statement I may 
make or opinion 1 may give in its pages, if thought worth 
so much notice as to call forth the comment or fair criticism of 
my professional brethren, I shall not only be content, but pleased 
to abide the ordeal, well knowing that such is the surest way to 
ascertain truth : but ill-nature should never supply the place of 
criticism, nor irritated feelings mislead the judgment. 
MAL-CONFORMATION IN A COLT—DOUBLE LEGS. 
By Mr. V/. A. Cartwright, V.S., Whitchurch . 
In the month of April 1834, a cart mare, the property of 
Mrs. Craven, of Bronington, Flintshire, four miles and a half 
from hence, cast her foal about one month before her time. Its 
two fore legs presented the following curious formation: — On 
the outside of each leg grew from the metatarsal bones an addi¬ 
tional part of a leg, but of a smaller size. Each of them com¬ 
menced from the lower half of the cannon, and diverged from the 
principal one, forming a distinct inferior part of the cannon, and 
also perfect pasterns and hoofs. The additional joints did not 
reach down so low as the natural ones, and the pasterns were 
merely connected together by skin, but w r ere pretty well formed. 
They make a beautiful specimen, and are in my possession ; 
but it was a great chance that they were not thrown away. I 
should think they were similar to those of a mare that travelled 
about this country some years ago, and went, I think, by the 
name of “ Creeping Jenny. 7 ’ One of the hind legs was bent at 
the hock, and at the fetlock joint, forming three sides of a square. 
AN INVETERATE CANCEROUS AFFECTION IN A 
COW. 
By the same . 
Sometime about the month of October or November last a 
cow of Mr. Tudman’s, of Black Park, got “ hiked,” or injured 
by another cow’s horn, in her vagina, on the near side, at its 
