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effected. We, at length, determined to remove her from public 
view, and to put her into a smaller cage with closer bars ; and when 
she was a little accustomed to her new situation, I, to whom she 
had shewn some attachment, would try whether, for her good, I 
could not so far abuse her confidence as to open the tumours 
pretty deeply. I ordered a long, and narrow, and sharp-pointed 
double-edged scalpel to be made for this purpose. 
7th . — She has lost ground sadly within the last two days, and 
she staggers as she walks. She was coaxed up to the bars : we 
got her into the proper position ; one of the keepers amused her, 
and I plunged my knife into the base of the tumour on the left 
side, and, by a rapid movement, brought it through the whole of 
the enlargement. She lost altogether more than a quart of blood. 
I ordered them to foment her, if possible, with the infusion of 
hemlock, and to give again the hydriodate of potash, in doses of 
four grains morning and night; for although this drug had not 
removed the tumours, their rapid increase after it was discon- 
tinued shewed that it had been exerting some power. 
8th . — She does not appear to be much weaker than she 
was before the operation, and the poor wench suffered me to 
coax her to the bars, and examine her throat. The projecting 
portion of the tumour, from the apparent base of which there was 
the greatest discharge, has been fairly cut through. There were 
no fistulae, no ulcers in it ; but it was a solid body, of a pale 
colour, and the discharge had proceeded from fistulae in a broader, 
softer, less organized substance beneath. The discharge has 
ceased. If she does not get too weak, I shall be tempted to 
attack the other tumour in a day or two. Feed well ; foment 
with decoction of hemlock, and give four grains of the iodide of 
iron daily. 
10th . — She is rapidly losing flesh and strength. She still 
can be coaxed to the bars, but she staggers, and almost falls 
in her way. I have not often been more interested about a pa- 
tient ; but she must go. Continue fomentation and medicine. 
1 2th . — She is dead, and evidently without a struggle, for 
not a straw was moved. She had been unhealthy from the 
time that she came into our possession, and long before that. 
I happened to be in the gardens on the morning after she arrived, 
and, being asked by the Honorary Secretary what I thought of 
her, I said that she would die before another lioness that was 
then ill. She has, however, lingered on to this time. 
Messrs. Liston and Cox were present at the post-mortem ex- 
amination. The stomach and bowels presented no disease, but 
the liver had been most highly inflamed. It was a mass of black 
mud , yet the secretion of bile was carried on in various parts 
