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lungs; but -the question often asked by non-medical persons with so 

 much anxiety, about themselves or friends, whether the lungs are af- 

 fected, seems to have reference principally to the symptoms of con- 

 sumption. 



LYMPH. A fine fluid, separated in the body from the mass of 

 blood, and contained in peculiar vessels. It is distinguished into 

 watery and coagulable lymph ; the former, as tears, for an exam- 

 ple, is little else than water holding in solution a small portion of 

 salt, and still less of animal matter. Coagulable lymph, which is 

 found in the dropsy, contains a very considerable portion of albumen, 

 go as to be viscid to the touch, and when heated to coagulate firmly, 

 like the white of an egg. 



THE LYNX. 



LYNX. The Canada lynx, or grey wild cat, when full grown, 

 measures a little over three feet from the point of the nose to the root 

 of the tail, and the length of the tail is about six inches more. The 

 weight will vary from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Its food consists 

 of several species of grouse and other birds, the northern hare, grey- 

 rabbit, chipping squirrel, and other small quadrupeds, occasionally 

 attacking and devouring deer, sheep, lambs, poultry, and pigs. It is 

 said, also, that it will pounce upon the wild goose, at its breeding- 

 places, and will destroy the wild turkey while on her nest. Whe^ii 

 alarmed or pursued, it leaps rapidly in a straight line from danger, 

 and if hard pressed, will take to a tree. It will not ordinarily attack 

 a man, but on becoming desperate from hunger or fear, it will attack 





