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normally,” said the owner when calling on the author. “The 
head and feet are present, but, notwithstanding all efforts, the 
foetus cannot be delivered.” On making his examination Mr. 
Husson by opening the vulva detected the point of the nose and 
the feet engaged in the pelvis, but in introducing his hand he 
soon found out that the feet belonged to the hind legs, the fore 
legs he could not trace. After pushing back the hind legs, 
the foetus was delivered. It weighed 63 kilograms and had no 
fore legs. Their skeleton consisted of only one bone, the 
scapula, each one of them ending in a stump, except on one, 
where a small articulated piece existed, representing the hu¬ 
merus.— (Jour, de Med. Vet. and Zootechnie.) 
Ectopy of the Right Kidney in a Sow [By M. X. 
Gavarry ).—This peculiar condition is not as well known in 
veterinary medicine as it is in human. This case was observed 
in a three-year-old sow, in proper condition of fat. The. left 
kidney was in its normal position, the right was placed behind 
about twenty-five centimeters from it. The afferent and ef¬ 
ferent vessels had their normal length ; the right renal artery 
took its origin from the posterior aorta at the point where this 
divides to give off the iliacs. The right kidney was normal in 
weight and in size, and was surrounded by adipose tissue. Dur¬ 
ing life the animal never showed any signs of illness or disturb¬ 
ance by the abnormality, nor was gestation or parturition ever 
disturbed by it.— (Jour, de Med.Vet. and Zootechnie.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
A REPEY TO RESOLUTIONS OF CENSURE FORMULATED BY THE 
ILLINOIS VETERINARY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIA¬ 
TION (OF NON-GRADUATES), AND PUBLISHED IN THE 
OCTOBER NUMBER OF THE “REVIEW.” 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 13, 1900. 
“ Let him that is without sin cast the first stone. ” 
With all our boasted evolution and moral progressiveness 
there still can be found large chunks of cussedness in human 
nature, particularly that form of it that prompted the words 
quoted above and uttered two thousand years ago, and I verily 
believe if that admonition had been addressed to the members 
of that committee on resolutions, every mother’s son of them 
would have reached for a stone, for they cannot by any mode of 
reasoning familiar to them find a single flaw in their physical 
