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9. That the serous fluid exuded from the lungs is not a 
specific “ virus,” or “ lymph,” as it is sometimes designated. 
10. That inoculations made with medicinal irritating 
agents will be followed by similar phenomena to those 
observed in inoculations with the exuded serum. 
11. That inoculation often acts as a simple issue, and that 
the security which at times the operation apparently affords 
depends in part upon this, but principally on the unknown 
causes which regulate the outbreak, spread, and cessation of 
epidemic diseases. 
1 2. That inoculation of cattle, as advocated and practised 
by Dr. Willems and others, is not founded on any known 
basis of science or ascertained law, with regard to the propa- 
gation of those diseases commonly called specific. 
13. That Pleuro-pneumonia occurs at various periods of 
time, after a so-called successful inoculation. 
14. And lastly, that the severity of Pleuro-pneumonia is 
in no way mitigated by previous inoculation, the disease 
proving equally rapid in its progress and fatal in its con- 
sequences in an inoculated as in an «m-inoculated animal. 
James Beart Simonds. 
June 1, 1853. 
DEATH OF THE LION IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
All our readers and the frequenters of the Zoological Gar- 
dens, will be very sorry to hear of the death of the. lion 
“Jupiter,” which has been so long the ornament of the col- 
lection. We noticed last week his illness, which it was then 
apprehended would prove fatal. His malady (according to 
the opinion of seven medical men who attended the royal 
patient) was influenza of an aggravated character; and for 
some time he refused food, but for a day or two before he 
expired, was induced to take a couple of quarts of strong beef 
tea with brandy. From the moment he grew seriously ill, the 
noble animal was gentle and tractable, and not only sub- 
mitted but seemed to wish to have his head and face bathed 
by Green, who was unremitting in his attention, stopping up 
whole nights, we might say, in the cage with the august 
sufferer. Notwithstanding all the attention paid his case, 
however, he sunk rapidly until Tuesday afternoon, when he 
expired, leaving a young widowed lioness and two helpless 
cubs, happily well-provided for. During his illness, and as 
long as his dead body was left in the den, the lioness, which 
