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animal is dull, and can scarcely be induced to eat. Leave off 
the morphine, and give four grains of the iodide of iron twice in 
the day. 
14th. — He is more lively, takes more exercise, and has once 
or twice reared himself up against the bars. His breathing, how- 
ever, is very laborious, and I hear that fearful cough. He is 
not worse than he was a fortnight ago. Is he better? I would 
say that he is if I dared. Do I hope ? That I scarcely dare to 
do. But we will fight on ; the prize is worth contending for. 
Continue the iodide, and coax him to eat, for his appetite has not 
yet returned after the narcotic. 
1 6th. — He is not worse. Catching him down, and lying in a 
favourable position, I made the keeper open the door of his cage. 
It is a noble beast, and he suffered me to explore the whole of the 
left side of the chest. I could hear the air rushing, as I imagin- 
ed, through a considerable cavity : if so, no power can save him. 
1 7th. — This morning he was fortunately lying on the other 
side. The pectoriloquy was plainly heard ; but I fancied that it 
was more distant, and in the farther or left lung. The case then 
is desperate ; but he is more cheerful, and takes more exercise, 
and feeds and looks better. Let him take fourteen grains of the 
iodide of iron daily. 
18?^. — Increase the medicine to sixteen grains. 
24th. — He is not worse, but he has ceased to improve. I do 
not like this pause. Continue medicine. 
29th. — Still stationary. The medicine has been increased to 
twenty grains. I fear. 
31st. — The change is come at last. He is again on his back, 
groaning dreadfully, and the countenance expressive of pain. 
He ate his food, however, last night. The gardens have been 
exceedingly crowded for two or three days, and the company 
have gathered about him and annoyed him, because he was ill. 
Give again the hydriodate of potash, four grains, four times 
a-day, and, at present, a grain of the acetate of morphine twice 
in the day. 
June Isf. — The respirations have quickened three in a minute 
since yesterday, and they are more laborious; he is likewise 
neglecting himself. He lies down without scruple or care on his 
own urine and dung: he altogether refuses his food. 
3d. — He is lost to all surrounding objects. He knows no 
one’s person or voice. He is sitting, or standing up, or stagger- 
ing about, wandering hither and thither, and strange fancies 
evidently filling his mind. Atone moment he will be evidently 
abstracted, and the eye sunken and dull ; then it will all at once 
be lighted up, and his noble countenance will be full of strange 
