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The hog often dies suddenly without any precursory symptoms. 
If apoplexy, however sudden and violent may be its attack, 
does not destroy the animal in a comparatively short space of 
time, the most alarming symptoms gradually disappear, but 
without the animal being cured. The disease passes into a 
chronic state, and terminates, at last, with the death of the pa¬ 
tient, who dies with all the symptoms of inflammation of the 
brain. 
On opening the animals that die of apoplexy, there is either 
simple turgescence of the vessels, which are gorged with blood, 
or, oftener, there is an effusion of blood either on the surface, or 
in the substance, or in the ventricles of the brain. 
When this complaint attacks many animals at the same time, 
it is necessary to search diligently for the causes of it, and 
either to remove them or lessen their injurious effect; and the 
succour afforded to the animals should be prompt. 
Filemens de Pathologic Vetermaire, p. 44. 
ANOMALIES —DOUBLE LEGS — DESCRIPTION OF 
CREEPING JENNY. 
Mr. Cartwright, F'.S., Whitchurch. 
In The Veterinarian for September last you inserted a 
case I sent you of Double Legs” in a colt, and I there alluded 
to a similar one in a mare, called Creeping Jenny,” which I 
had seen eight or nine years before, but had not particularly 
noticed her: since then the mare has been shewn again in this 
town, and I have sent you the following particulars of her, as I 
think it worthy of being recorded, although I believe she has 
been seen by most people in this country, and shewn for two or 
three years in London. 
She is said to be fifteen years old, thorough-bred, got by Sor- 
cereror Williams’s ditto, dam by Skyscraper; but is thought to be 
got by the former, as her dam went the usual time with foal for 
his get, but was covered by the latter six weeks after, being sup¬ 
posed not to hold to the former. She has had three foals; one i^ 
seven and another three years old, and the other I know nothing 
about, except that all of them are perfect in conformation. She is a 
very handsome compact mare, and I am told has run nine races, 
winning the filly stakes at Newmarket, and £b0 at York in 1822; 
and the £60 stakes and the City plate at Canterbury in 1823. She 
was bred by Mr. Checketts, of Belgrave Hall, near Leicester, who 
now travels about with her as a curiosity, and who takes occasion- 
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