ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VETERINARIAN. 

 BY FRANK H. MILLER, V.S. 



I RESPECTFULLY beg to submit the following report rel- 

 ative to the animals of the New York Zoological Park un- 

 der my care — their general health, diseases, injuries, treatment, 

 and feeding from the time of my appointment by the Executive 

 Committee on the recommendation of Professor Osborn. 



My first general inspection of all animals installed within the 

 Park, made May 22, 1901, showed them to be in good health, 

 the following cases excepted : 



1. One buffalo bull. Sub-chronic intestinal catarrh. 



2. One aged buffalo cow. Chronic intestinal catarrh. 



3. One prong-horned antelope. Suppurating tendo-vaginitis 

 (chronic). 



4. One prong-homed antelope. Severed tendons. 



5. One prong-horned antelope. Fractured ribs and abscess on 

 sternum. 



6. One Ceram cassowary. Necrotic inflammation of throat. 



7. One beaver (just admitted). Lacerated wounds and man- 

 gled foot. 



Of the above cases, the following disposal was made : 



Cases I and 2 (the Buffalo) were isolated from the herd and 

 their diet regulated to suit their altered conditions, and the 

 various tonic-astringents commonly used in domesticated 

 ruminants administered, but with very indifferent results. I 

 then concluded to use tannigen, which agent, probably by rea- 

 son of its passing the multiplex stomach unchanged, exerted its 

 highly satisfactory curative powers within the intestinal canal, 

 speedily induced a normal activity, and the animals were again 

 allowed to enter the herd. 



