REMOVAL OF A SUPERNUMERARY LEG. 
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ounce renders eighteen quarts of water sufficiently mucila¬ 
ginous, and these serve to form four pounds and a half of 
wood-flour into cakes. These cakes are baked until they are 
brown on the surface. After this they are broken to pieces, 
and again ground, until the flour pass through a fine 
boulting-cloth ; and upon the fineness of the flour does its 
fitness to make bread depend. The flour of a hard wood , 
such as beech, requires the process of baking and grinding 
to be repeated. Wood-flour does not ferment so readily as 
wffieaten-flour; but the professor found fifteen pounds of 
birch-wood flour, with three pounds of sour wheat-leaven, 
and two pounds of wheat-flour, mixed up with eight mea¬ 
sures of new milk, yielded thirty-six pounds of very good 
bread. The learned professor tried the nutritious properties 
of wood-flour, in the first instance, upon a young dog; 
afterwards he fed two pigs upon it; and then, taking courage 
from the success of the experiment, he attacked it himself. 
His family party, he says, ate it in the form of gruel or soup, 
dumplings and pancakes, all made with as little of any other 
ingredient as possible ; and found them palatable, and quite 
wholesome. Are we, then, instead of looking upon a human 
being stretched upon a bare plank as the picture of extreme 
want and wretchedness, to regard him as reposing in the lap 
of abundance, and consider henceforth the common phrase, 
£C bed and board,” as compounded of synonymous terms? 
REMOVAL OF A SUPERNUMERARY LEG CON¬ 
NECTED TO ONE OF THE FORE LEGS OF A 
COLT, THE PROPERTY OF — JACKSON, ESQ., 
GRAYS, ESSEX. 
By G. Yarnell, Assistant-Professor, Royal Vet. College. 
Towards the close of last year my opinion was asked 
respecting a foal, of the cart breed, about six months old, 
which was described as having an extra leg growing from the 
inner side of the off fore one ; if I thought it could be 
removed with safety. Judging from the description given to 
me of its situation, I had no hesitation in stating that it 
could, but that it had better be sent to the College to be 
operated upon. This the owner assented to, and both the 
foal and its dam were brought to this institution. 
