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CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
No. XV. 
By Mr. Youatt. 
[Th ese contributions, confined almost solely to the feres natures , 
are resumed, and shall be continued. Although a few of our 
veterinary brethren complained of them, we did wrong in 
suspending them ; for these records of disease, its symptoms, 
course, and treatment, in animals of such various character, 
cannot fail of being essentially useful, both to the practitioner 
of human and of veterinary medicine. The fatal cases will be 
mostly selected, for they will speak most plainly for them- 
selves. — Y.] 
HEPATITIS IN A LIONESS. 
1833, Aug. 5th. — Lioness. This is about half the time of her 
usual period of utero-gestation. One of the keepers passing by 
this morning, saw her eating something that looked red. It was 
probably an abortion ; for, in the course of the day, she discharged 
a considerable quantity of bloody serous fluid from the vagina. 
Give her four grains each of calomel and antimonial powder. 
10th. — She has seemed to be going on well, except that she 
has not quite her usual appetite and spirits. Repeat the powder. 
14^/?. — She has been heard to cough ; she evidently heaves 
more than she should at the flanks, and she will not eat. Give 
her a third dose of the powder. 
1 6th . — The medicine has briskly purged her; but she refuses 
altogether to eat, heaves more than before at the flanks, and the 
muzzle is dry and hot. Bleed her from the palate, the only 
place at which we can possibly accomplish it. 
17 th. — She bled well, but she licked up or swallowed the 
greater part of the blood. Her respiration is not quite so labo- 
rious, but she will not eat. Calomel and antimonial powder as 
before. 
19 th. — Very little change; and as she will not eat or drink, it 
is impossible to administer medicine. 
21st. — She does not heave so much, but there is an inward 
groaning accompanying each act of respiration. She still re- 
fuses to eat. She will still occasionally come up to us and lick 
our hands. Let the keepers watch, and try to shake four grains 
each of calomel and antimonial powder on her tongue. 
2 2d. — The powder was shaken on her tongue, and a small por- 
tion of hardened feces evacuated — the first for four days. Give 
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