REGENERATION OF A COW. 
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this opinion on what veterinary surgeons know of the greater or 
less serious character of these lesions when thev exist in a horse 
that is not at the time labouring under periodical ophthalmia. 
They know that leucoma—a spot—a cloudiness—a partial ca¬ 
taract—may exist for a long time without producing blindness ; 
that some of them may disappear, as detached spots, and cloudi¬ 
ness ; that leucoma may be stationary during the life of the 
horse ; and that the progress of cataract is sometimes exceed¬ 
ingly slow. 
I know that all my brethren do not agree with me in opinion 
here; but I submit this for public discussion. 
Journal. 
ifHi0CTUanea* 
Regeneration of a Cow. 
A GENTLEMAN applied to Mr. Hobler, the chief clerk, to know 
whether the Lord Mayor could remedy a case in which it could 
not but be considered that a very gross imposition had been prac¬ 
tised. The case related to an old cow that had been sold, and 
foisted upon the seller very soon afterwards as a young one. Mr. 
Hobler requested to know how the deception was practised, as 
the imposture was to be collected from the circumstances. The 
gentleman said that his friend had been already so much laughed 
at for allowing himself to be imposed upon that he could scarcely 
appear among his neighbours. It would, therefore, be injudicious 
to mention the case in a place where every thing that is said ap¬ 
pears before the public at breakfast next morning. Mr. Hobler 
said the public would, perhaps, be benefitted by the recital, and 
that the trick, if exposed, would stand no chance of being repeated. 
About a fortnight ago a farmer, residing in Epping Forest, having 
rather an elderly cow which began to be very slack of milk, deter¬ 
mined to get rid of her, and purchase another. He accordingly 
took her to Romford fair, and sold her to a cow-dealer for £4 10s.; 
not seeing any other cow in the market that he liked, he returned 
home satisfied with the price he had got for the '‘old un.” The 
cow-dealer calculated on Smithfield as being a better emporium for 
disposing of his bargain, and acccordingly drove her there in order 
to sell her to the polony-pudding merchants ; but there happened 
that day to be a glut of that description of dainty. The cow 
would not sell even for the money he had given for her, and the 
owner was about to dispose of her for less, when a doctor, who 
had been regarding the beast for some time, ofi’ered for a fee of 5s. 
to make her as young as she was ten years before. The fee was 
paid, the doctor took the patient into a stable,groomed and dressed 
her all over, prescribed some strange diet, sawed down her horns 
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