572 CONGENITAL MALFORMATION OF THE ANUS. 
The learned Sergeant cleverly replied upon the whole case, 
and his lordship summed up the evidence in a very impartial 
manner, directing the jury, if they found for the plaintiff, to 
find only for the difference between the price given for the 
horse, and the sum for which he sold when in -dispute. 
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £17 Gs. Gd ., 
and, we hear, his lordship certified for costs to be carried with 
the verdict.— Leicester Chronicle, July 31, 1852. 
Foreign Department. 
CONGENITAL MALFORMATION OF THE ANUS. 
By M. Matiiieu, Y.S. at Aney-le-Franc (Yonne). 
Congenital anomalies of the anus have been little 
attended to by Veterinarians. This is not owing to the 
rarity of such cases, neither is it because they have not been 
frequently observed, but, I feel persuaded, from the neglect 
on the part of observers in not publishing their cases. Such 
inertia is unpardonable. It behoves us all to unite our efforts 
in progressing a science we are all, or ought all to be, devoted 
to. This is the only means of bringing forth meritorious 
monographs. 
Congenital anomalies, alias malformation of the anus, are 
two:— 
1. Opening of the rectum into the vagina. 
2. Opening of the rectum into the bladder. 
Before, however, we proceed, let it be understood, that it 
is my intention to preserve the name of anus to the termi¬ 
nating aperture of the rectum, be that situation wherever it 
may, and whatever be its structure. 
Opening of the Rectum into the Vagina. 
The case about to be related of this, was that of a female 
calf (only four days old), about to be sent to the butchers. 
The parents had no malformation. But this calf had neither 
tail nor proper anus; the anal opening being within the vagina, 
at about |ths of an inch from the superior commissure of the 
vulva. YVhen no faeces are passing this aperture is closed; 
possessing as it does the power of contractility, as may be 
perceived by the introduction of the finger. 
