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AMPUTATION OF A SUPERNUMERARY LIMB. 
and sent to Aylesbury direct, where they were all slaughtered 
in a perfectly healthy condition, within six days of purchase. 
No disease was observed at Aylesbury until upwards of six 
weeks after the Spanish cattle had been killed. 
Mouth and foot disease is not unfrequently imported from 
the Continent, but it is proverbial that Spanish cattle are very 
rarely found to be affected with it on their arrival here. It 
must not be inferred, however, that they enjoy an immunity 
against the influence of the contagium, for, like all other 
cattle, they become affected when exposed to the disease in 
this country. 
SMALL-POX OF SHEEP. 
This malady does not appear to have declined in any of the 
countries in which we reported its existence in our last 
number. It is still devastating the flocks in many parts of 
Schleswig-Holstein and Pomerania—two countries from which 
we are weekly importing sheep. The disease has also broken 
out at Gallipoli, in Southern Italy. 
DEATH OF A FAWN FROM CYSTICEllCI. 
Mr. J. N. Cooper, Veterinary Surgeon, Dover, has sent 
us an interesting account of the illness and death of a fawn— 
a lady’s pet—which he was called upon to attend. The 
diagnosis, excepting so far as a disordered state of the diges¬ 
tive organs was concerned, was very obscure at the commence¬ 
ment. Within a few days symptoms of peritonitis set in, and 
the animal died on the eighth day. h. post-mortem examina¬ 
tion showed the presence of a large number of cysticerci in 
the subcutaneous tissue, and within the great cavities of the 
body. In the latter situation the entozoa were attached to 
the viscera in numbers which can only be expressed by the 
term enormous. 
AMPUTATION OF A SUPEIINUMEIIAIIY LIMB. 
We are indebted to Mr. B. Freer, Veterinary Surgeon, 
U])])ingham, for the particulars of a case of supernumerary fore- 
limb in a foal, in which he succeeded, by amputation, in 
restoring natural tonnation so completely as to make it more 
than probable that the animal will be little or none the worse 
