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ON PUERPERAL FEVER. 
act of parturition, yet soon experience so much weakness of the 
loins, that they remain down, and unable to rise, for many days, 
yet eating and drinking as heartily as in a state of health! We 
also find many ewes, who for awhile lose altogether the use of 
their hind limbs, and yet afford sufficient nourishment to their lambs.” 
M. Dupuy, always foremost in the pursuit of science, gives, in 
1826, the following account of a cow paralytic after calving. “The 
parturition was natural, but in the course of the following night she 
dropped, and, in her violent and incessant struggles to rise, there 
was protrusion of the vagina and uterus, which were, however, 
readily returned. The hind limbs continued to be frequently con¬ 
vulsively agitated, yet, when they were pricked with a pin, it was 
evident that all sensibility was suspended. She was destroyed on 
the fourth day. 
“ The right lung was of the colour of wax. The rumen was dis¬ 
tended with food of a soft, clammy consistence, and exhaling a 
foetid odour. The contents of the reticulum were compressed and 
dry, formed into several masses, and adhering to the lining mem¬ 
brane of the stomach. The manyplus was distended with food so 
hard and dry, that it could scarcely be cut with a knife. The 
membrane of the abomasum was inflamed through its whole 
extent, and this inflammation extended a little way into the duode¬ 
num ; it appeared again in the rectum. The liver was sound, but 
the gall-bladder was distended to a most extraordinary degree. 
The uterus was slightly red, but its cotyledons were in a state of de¬ 
composition. 
“ The meninges of the brain presented nothing extraordinary. 
The spinal marrow was of its ordinary consistence throughout its 
whole extent, but at the lumbar region the superior portion of the cord 
icas reddened, and there were minute red spots here and there in 
its pulpy substance. The injection, which was of a deep red colour, 
occupied, for the space of two inches, the grey substance of the 
superior fascice of the medullary column. The inferior fasciae ex¬ 
hibited a yellow tint, which, with this exception, extended through 
the whole of the spinal cord.” 
Journal Pratique, 1826, p. 529. 
Y. 
AN EXTRA-UTERINE FGETUS. 
By Mr. R. Metherell, V.S., Spalding. 
A FEW days ago, Mr. Isaac Sharman, while killing his mutton 
for the market, found in the cavity of the abdomen of a ewe sheep 
a peculiar mass of organized matter, singular in colour and gene- 
