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AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CALF. 
By Mr. S. Wheatley, Staindrop. 
A cow belonging to Mr. W. Wilson, near Wolsingham, was 
put to the bull on the 9th of January, 1839, and calved a bull calf 
on the 10th of January, 1840, having been with calf fifty-two 
weeks and one day. The calf died soon after its birth, and the fol¬ 
lowing are its dimensions and weight: Length from the nose to 
the cleugh of the hind foot 7 feet 2 inches, round the chest 2 feet 
10^ inches, length of tail 22^ inches, the hair at the end of the 
tail 4 J inches, the teeth | of an inch long; being the size of a 
three months’ old calf. His weight was 8 stone 2 pounds. The 
cow (half bred) is doing well. 
This, I fancy, is the longest period of gestation in the cow^ that 
has been yet recorded. I have taken the above from '' The New¬ 
castle Journal,” for January 18, 1840. 
A CASE OF METASTASIS OF INFLAMMATION. 
On the 8th day of August 1837, I was requested to attend on a 
black colt, three years old, the property of Mr. P—, of this town, 
with the following symptoms. He walked with his hind legs much 
under the body, the fore feet were very hot, the pulse 60 per minute, 
and a strong pulsation of the plantar arteries; the breathing w^as 
quick, a cold sweat bedewed the body, and the bow^els were a 
little constipated. I at once declared it to be a case of inflamma¬ 
tion of the sensible laminae in both fore feet, and, upon inquiring, 
I heard that he had been a long journey on the previous day, and 
liad been bled this morning by a horse-dealer in the town to the 
amount of four quarts. 
Ireaiment .—I had his shoes taken off, which was accomplished 
with difficulty, and bled him in both heels, to the amount of at 
least four pounds. His feet w^ere pared well, and rasped quite 
thin, and I had the feet put into warm water, to encourage the 
bleeding; poultices were then applied to the feet, and ordered to 
be kept wet with a cold lotion. I then gave him aloes Barb. 3iij, 
nit. potassa §ss, ant. tart. 3j, pulv. glyc. ^ss, in a little w arm water. 
8 P.M.— No better. He is lying down. The feet still hot; 
pulse 62, and hard; the breathing about the same as in the morn¬ 
ing. I got him up, and bled him to the amount of ten pounds, and 
again plunged my lancet into both heels; and ordered aloes Barb. 
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