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REPORTS OF CASES. 
aside, and say to themselves : “ There is no use of reading up 
these things, we never meet any of them in this country,” but 
we do have them, the older practitioner is neglectful, and the 
younger too timid to record them. 
Anidian Monster . 
On Dec. 27, 1899, I was called to J. S. Huyler’s, at Hyde 
Park, N. Y., to look over a herd of cattle which had been carred 
in from the West. As I passed along behind the herd I noticed 
a portion of the placenta hanging from one of the cows. On 
questioning the attendant I found that she had calved two days 
previous, but the retained placenta did not occasion much at¬ 
tention, the foetus being so small. After I had loosened the 
foetal membranes from the fundus and left cornua of the uterus, 
it still was very adhesive to the floor of the right cornua. After 
manipulating it a few minutes I found that it felt very bulky, 
and that it had a diffuse attachment instead of a localized one, 
which, however, I loosened, causing very little haemorrhage. 
It consisted of a fleshy mass, dark red in color, and weighed 
about four pounds ; its shape was much like a robin’s nest, hav¬ 
ing a depression in the centre or top and containing a turbid 
fluid, and what appeared to be the foetal membranes, nourished 
by an imperfect umbilical cord. 
The after treatment consisted of a 2 per cent, creolin douche 
twice daily for two days, when the os had closed and recovery 
was complete. 
Bovine Monstrosity. 
On April 2d, a client came to my office and told me that one 
of his cows had given birth the day before to a calf which he 
thought might be of interest to me. 
I drove to his place that afternoon and after looking the in¬ 
dividual over I had it photographed, laying it on its side and 
taking a ventral and dorsal view, which I enclose. I then placed 
his u nibs ” on one side and Fleming’s on the other, and after 
guessing a half-hour or more I called it a Perosomus Horridus. 
I will now describe it as best I can. 
As will be seen by the accompanying photo, there was a 
complete torsion of the body, the hocks being replaced by two 
perfect knees. The cranial cavity was twice its natural size, 
the meninges protruding through a large opening at base of 
skull, containing a serous fluid with a few floating particles of 
white and gray matter. 
The thoracic cavity was devoid of lungs ; the abdominal 
cavity presented a small vacuum, all of the viscera protruding 
