8 REMOVAL OF A SUPERNUMERARY LEG. 
I now, for the first time, saw my little patient, made an 
examination of the supernumerary limb, and ascertained 
how it was connected to the leg. I found it was much larger 
than I had expected from the description the owner gave 
me, and its being removed, without leaving some little de¬ 
formity, was almost an impossibility; but, as it was a cart- 
foal, this would not be of much consequence. 
Peculiarity of Development. 
The large metacarpal bone of the off fore leg branched off 
inwardly. The inner division (the one to which the extra 
leg was attached) commenced a little above the middle of the 
bone, at first very small, but it gradually increased in 
