REPORTS OF CASES. 
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the muscular portiou was due to excessive coutractiou in tryiug- 
to prevent the accident. A question of paralysis was raised. 
If the nerve of the muscle was paralyzed the tendinous portion 
would still continue its function with some ability to flex the 
hock. 
A FCETAJ, SKEI.ETON. 
By J. L. Skeen, V. S., Boswell, Indiana. 
On Dec. 24, 1896, a man owning a two-year-old heifer which 
was due to calve called in a neighbor, who said the heifer had 
lost her calf ; so they began milking her. I heard no more 
from her until May, 1898. At this time I was at the farm treat¬ 
ing some horses when Mr. Shaney, the Owner of the heifer, told 
me he had milked the heifer for some time, and that she gave 
a good flow of milk, but she would not breed, and had not done 
well for some time ; so he sold her to a Mr. Ferell, who turned 
her to pasture, where she thrived nicely, and on September i, 
1898, he sold her to the butcher, with the understanding that 
he was to feed her corn for three weeks. 
On September 6th, Mr. Ferell came for me, telling me the 
heifer had some bowel trouble, and was straining very hard. I 
remembered her history, and told him I expected she had the 
skeleton of a calf in her, and went with him, flnding the cow in 
the lot eating, but laboring about every fifteen minutes. She 
looked bright and in fair condition for beef. On examination 
I found the two carpal bones about half through the neck of the 
uterus. When removed I found dilatation enough to admit my 
hand, when I found the whole remains of the calf. The head 
and cervical vertebrae, scapulae, etc., were clean of any fibres,' 
lying loose, while from this on back to the hind legs was in¬ 
tact and had to be cut or torn to pieces to be removed. The 
'liver, heart, kidneys and intestines were also intact, the liver 
feeling more like a greasy dish-rag than anything I can think 
of, while the tibia and tarsals, etc., had no flesh on them. One 
of the tarsal bones I found had forced itself full length into one 
of the fallopian tubes. There was no placenta, and the walls 
of the uterus were thick, feeling gritty, having no cotyledons. 
After delivering her, I washed the uterus out with a 1-500 solu¬ 
tion of bichloride, gave the cow a stimulant, and left. She was 
eating next day, and made a nice recovery. 
Now, the cow carried this foetus twenty-one months over 
time, or thirty months in all, with but very little appearance of 
suffering. 
