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liver, as I bad supposed; but owing to the presence of the thorn 
as I have described. 
This case has proved somewhat lengthy in detail, but the 
symptoms are just as I observed, and made a memorandum of 
at the time. The treatment might have been different, but 
there was not a shadow of a chance under any circumstance. 
Dursley, Feb. 6th, 1852. 
*** To a case so practically interesting we gladly give insertion, 
pourtraying so faithfully and naturally as it does symptoms 
indicative no less of its fatal tendency than of the seat and 
nature of the disease it turned out, as prognosticated, to owe 
its origin to.— Ed. Vet. 
FOUR CALVES (ABORTED) AT A BIRTH. 
I SOLD an in-calf heifer, in the summer of 1850, to Mr. Brown, 
a dairyman, 29, Spring-street, Paddington. On calling there 
this week, I found she had recently been delivered of four calves , 
supposed to be fifteen or sixteen weeks old. They are very 
small, but I believe all perfect, and may be inspected by any 
veterinary surgeon. I observe, Mr. Barlow mentions, in his 
communication to the first number of the Royal Agricultural 
Society’s Journal of last year, that a cow had been delivered 
of nine calves in three years; but I do not find an instance of four 
calves being dropped at once. 
From Mr. Wm. Brown. 
Tring, 
January 28, 1852. 
A LETTER FROM MR. GLOAGr, ON THE SUBJECT OF 
MR. TURNER’S LETTER. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian .” 
Sir,—I n the last number of your journal, a letter appeared 
from Mr. James Turner, on the subject of the review of M. 
Bouley’s work “ On the Foot of the Horse,” in which he took 
occasion to remark, that he considered some experiments which 
lately appeared in The Veterinarian, on the expansion of 
the foot, “ could not be considered as a test upon a subject which 
involves an investigation of the greatest nicety.” I have the 
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