iietp:ntk)N of the fcetus. 
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immense power of the periosteum and the fascial attachment of 
the muscles. See., and that the exertion subsequently used dis¬ 
places that which, in reality, had been broken before. I have 
no doubt but that there are many more cases of this kind of frac¬ 
ture than we are often aware of; and they satisfactorily account 
for some of those tedious cases of lameness from blows, &c., 
which, being supposed only to have produced simple contusion, 
create a wonder in the minds of our employers that they are not 
sooner cured. 
RETENTION OF^THE FCETUS. 
Bj/ Mr. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
23J June, 1837.— Mr. Harding, of Little Green, told me 
to-day that some years ago they had a cow that was bulled, and 
was expected to calve in the spring following; when, however, 
that time arrived, she shewed no signs of parturition, either 
in straining or in the enlarging of the udder, nor could the calf 
be felt. Being in tolerable condition, she w’as sold to a butcher, 
who killed her, and on opening her, found in the uterus a consi¬ 
derable quantity of bones, and the uterus sound. 
The same farmer had another curious circumstance occurring at 
his house ; viz. a ewe yeaned two lambs in the spring, and made 
them fat, and which were sold from her. Towards the following 
September she was sold to the above butcher, who found in 
her uterus a quantity of bones, 
lamb. 
22(1 .JunCj 1837.—This morning Mr. Allen, butcher, of this 
town, sent for me to his slaughter-house. When I arrived there, 
I found he had killed a fine five-years old fat cow, that he had pur¬ 
chased a few days before at Drayton fair, from a Mr. Topham, of 
Peplow, who had purchased her from a poor neighbour as bar¬ 
ren. The uterus contained a quantity of small bones, being evi¬ 
dently the remains of a calf. The whole size of the uterus which 
contained the bones was about half that of one’s head. They 
were contained in one horn or portion of the uterus, and whicli 
was thinner than the other, and was sound : the other portion 
was quite natural, and thicker. The w'hole of the bones ajipeared 
not to be there, as the greater portion of the head and hoofs of two 
legs were absent. The length of the scapula was two and a half 
inches; the longest of the ribs three inches. There was scarcely 
half a table-spoonful of matter amongst them, and they had not the 
evidently the remains of another 
