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kicked. He stood perfectly normal when I first saw him, but 
in attempting to move he used the leg, but knuckled over so far 
that he walked on the wall of his toe. The leg appeared per¬ 
fectly loose at the hock, and the gastrocnemius was loose and 
flabby. I .diagnosed rupture of the flexor metatarsi and ordered 
the animal placed in a box-stall, to be kept there for four weeks. 
At the expiration of the four weeks he was led out for examina¬ 
tion. He limped slightly, but in the course of another week 
the lameness entirely disappeared and he was pronounced cured. 
A FCETAL MONSTROSITY. 
By R. Kerr, V. S., South Kaukauna, Wis. 
On May 31, 1B97, I was called to the farm of Michael Welsh, 
in the town of Kaukauna, for the purpose of returning the 
‘‘ everted uterus ” of a cow. On making an examination, I 
found that it was a case of parturition, in the posterior presenta¬ 
tion, lumbo-sacral position. The foetus described below was de¬ 
livered, alive and fully developed. The lumbar and sacral ver¬ 
tebrae were turned upwards and forwards over the dorsal region; 
the false ribs were turned outwards and upwards; lungs, heart, 
and diaphragm normal; abdomen from posterior extremity of 
the sternum to the coccygeal vertebrae was laid wide open, and 
the intestines of the foetus were floating in the maternal uterus. 
The dam was a very valuable animal, and made a good re¬ 
covery. 
THE TUBERCULIN TEST IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
A group of 130 cows in Lowell and vicinity were condemned 
by the Massachusetts State Board of Cattle Commissioners as 
being affected with tuberculosis under the test by tuberculin, 
and Senator Putnam, of Lowell, was induced to secure an inves¬ 
tigating committee from the legislature to ascertain if the ani¬ 
mals were really diseased, through the services of experts, who 
were to superintend the destruction of the animals and the ac¬ 
companying autopsies. 'Later the same committee was author¬ 
ized to purchase and destroy twenty animals from the Lowell 
herds which were tested with the 130 cows without reacting to 
tuberculin, the purpose being to ascertain if the diagnostic had 
proven accurate in detecting the disease. 
Two reports were submitted to the legislature—a majority 
and a minority report, together with the special reports of the 
five experts appointed, who were Drs. H. C. Ernst, of Boston ; 
