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MONSTER PRODUCED BY A COW. 
THIS singular monster, bom at Wagendmssel, in the county of 
Zips, in Hungary, is described by Dr. D. Schreiter: it was ex¬ 
tracted, living, from a cow, in April 1825, and killed immediately. 
A tradesman kept it, and eight days after a judicial examination 
of it took place. Its length, from head to the anus, was three 
feet (Vienna measure ), and it was two feet in height. The head 
was larger than, but strangely resemhling that of a man. The 
space comprised between the coronal suture and chin measured ten 
inches. The frontal and parietal bones were separated by a fon- 
tanelle. The sagittal suture was au inch long; and this region was 
covered with yellowish brovm hair. On each side there was a 
small human shaped ear, the lobe of which terminated in a calPs 
ear, three inches long. The face was entirely smooth, and with¬ 
out hair. The eyes blue, the eye-brows the colour of the hair. 
The nose was flattened at the end, and the nostrils wide. The 
upper jaw, without teeth, was terminated by a lip, as in man; the 
lower lip, having ten pointed teeth, had more analogy to that of a 
calf. On the chest were two hemispheric breasts, projecting about 
half an inch, with prominent nipples; the thorax and buttocks 
resembled the human, only the body was rather longer in propor¬ 
tion to the limbs; to the lumbar vertebrae succeeded a tail, 
8 inches long, unde| which the female genital organs were situ¬ 
ated. The udder was situated between the buttocks. The limbs, 
which were naked as far as relates to the arms and thighs, were 
otherwise covered with hair, and terminated by the feet of a calf. 
—London Medical Gazette,from Bull, des Sci, Med, Mar, 1828. 
WE have gTeat pleasure in inserting the Laws of the Veterinaiy 
Medical Society, and a list of its members, honorary and ordinary, 
at their third meeting. While it is devoted to the pursuit of vete¬ 
rinary science, and the improvement of veterinary practice, we are 
confident that every practitioner who has the interest of the profes¬ 
sion at heart, will most cordially join it. 
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