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Case No. j, Suppurating tendo-vagmitis upon leg of Antelope, 

 I treated by chloroforming the animal, opening the infected 

 parts, cleansing the same with hydrogen peroxide, and dress- 

 ing with iodoform, ether, and bandages. The patient showed 

 satisfactory improvement under daily dressing by the keeper 

 up to the eighth day, when gangrenous conditions appeared, and 

 the animal was removed by chloroforming. 



Case No. 4, Antelope with severed tendons, was, upon close ex- 

 amination, found to be inoperable, and the animal was removed 

 from the herd by chloroforming. 



Case No. 5, Antelope with fractured ribs and abscesses, received 

 in fighting, was operated upon painlessly by the use of cocaine 

 injections, the pockets drained and packed, after the removal of 

 a segment of detached rib. Daily dressing of the wound was 

 performed by the keeper under my direction, with the result that 

 the abscesses healed rapidly. However, the injury to the 

 sternum proved to be such as to deprive it of adequate nour- 

 ishment, and necrosis slowly progressed, notwithstanding care- 

 ful drainage and approved antiseptics, necessitating re-operation 

 upon several occasions, owing to fistulse being formed. Later it 

 was considered more humane to destroy the animal; first, be- 

 cause of the certainty of long treatment being required; sec- 

 ondly, because of the very unthrifty appearance of the animal in 

 an otherwise healthy herd. Chloroformed. 



Case No. 6, Cassowary with necrotic throat, placed under treat- 

 ment of artificial nourishment and frequent spraying of the throat 

 with saturated solution of boric acid. Since the bird had en- 

 tirely ceased to take food, and was aged, he rapidly sank, and 

 died on the following day. 



Case No. 7, Injured Beaver. Animal was operated on by local 

 application of cocaine; one digit was amputated, and wounds 

 curetted and packed with xeroform powder, and he was allowed 

 to take the water in our beaver pond, with rapid and complete 

 recovery. 



The cases which have come under my immediate care since 

 May 22, 1901, have in the main been such injuries and diseases 

 (sporadic and enzootic) as naturally appear in the practice of the 

 general practitioner of comparative medicine, somewhat aug- 

 mented by reason of the changed conditions incidental to, and 

 more or less inseparable from, the confinement of wild animals. 



