606 EXTRA-UTERINE CONCEPTION IN A IIEIFER. 
of the most celebrated chemists to decompose it. As a remedy 
in veterinary practice, we consider it most valuable. The dis¬ 
covery of iodine was purely accidental; and but for unfore¬ 
seen circumstances, one of the most curious, as well as valuable 
substances, might have remained unknown, since nature has not 
distributed it either in a simple or compound state through her 
different kingdoms, but has confined it to what the Roman sa¬ 
tirist considers as the most worthless of things—the “ wild sea¬ 
ts 
weed.” 
EXTRA-UTERINE CONCEPTION IN A HEIFER. 
By the Rev . II. Berry. 
A few years ago I had a valuable heifer, whose time for 
calving had arrived, who had exhibited all the usual symptoms 
of nearly approaching parturition, and whose pains were coming 
on evidently, and very acutely. I concluded all was in a proper 
train for a speedy termination of an affair in which I generally 
take much interest. 
It happened on this occasion that I was called from home ; and 
after being absent a day and a night, to my surprise, I found the 
heifer in the same state in which \ had left her, except that she 
suffered under considerable accession of fever, and from the pain¬ 
fully distended udder usual in cases of protracted parturition. 
Under the circumstances, I resolved on examination, suspect¬ 
ing a wrong presentation of the calf, when, to my utter astonish¬ 
ment, on passing my hand, without difficulty, into the womb, I 
found it contained no inmate. My first suspicion was that the 
heifer might have calved in the field ; but this idea was soon 
abandoned, for, on applying my thumb above the flank, I dis¬ 
tinctly touched a calf. 
While in the perplexity natural to the difficult circumstances 
in which I w 7 as placed (more difficult, because my then neighbour¬ 
hood, like all others with which I have ever been acquainted, 
afforded no effectual professional relief for this valuable kind of 
stock), the late Mr. Lockley, of sporting celebrity, paid me a 
visit, and having satisfied himself also that there was a calf, 
but not in the womb, w-e muluallv agreed, being desirous to save 
the calf, that the Ceesarean operation should be performed, and 
a professional gentleman, who attended my family, kindly 
officiated on the occasion. 
The result was, as we anticipated, fatal to the heifer; in¬ 
deed, she was completely exhausted before the operation com¬ 
menced. 
