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CLINICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



discharge. Although the Eippetite \vas sometimes capricious, the animal 

 usually ate the greater part of its food. It belonged to a woman \vho 

 had long suffered from chronic cough, Nvhich she regarded as asthmatic, 

 though to a better-informed person she clearly had the appearance of a 

 consumptive. About six weeks before a suppurating wound had been 

 noticed at the upper part of the cat's neck. Situated near the origin 

 of the trachea, this wound ^^•as circular in form, hardly two lines in 

 diameter, and had thin separated edges. It communicated with a long 

 sinuous track, ending on the left surface of the trachea. It discharged 



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Y\Q. 15. — Tuberculous ulrer of the nose. 



a greyish pus, in which bacilli were discovered on bacteriological exami- 

 nation. I was unable to prevail on the owner to leave this cat, and it 

 was never broucht back acain. 



A year later, in 1896, a three-year-old cat was brought for examina- 

 tion whilst still in good health. For five or six months it had suffered 

 from an ulcerous wound of the nose and face. 



I kept this patient in hospital for some time. The wound was 

 rounded in form, occupied the entire dorsal region of the nose and a por- 

 tion of the face and forehead, and measured nearly an inch and a half in 

 diameter. Its margins were indurated and excavated perpendicularly. 



