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CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
No. IV. 
By Mr. You att. 
Phthisis, slightly connected with Hepatitis. 
1834, April 29 th. — Female Tiger. Coughs, with ap- 
parent attempt to get something from the throat. Taken ill on 
the same day, and with precisely the same symptoms as the 
male. Give three grains of emetic tartar in water. 
30 th. — Was not sick, yet seems to be better. Wait. 
May 4 th. — She is not right, and is frequently heard to cough. 
Give three grains of emetic tartar. 
5th. — She has been puked, and the cough is relieved. Give 
daily two grains each of calomel and antimonial powder. 
9th. — She still coughs occasionally. Continue powder. 
11 th. — Still coughs a little, but in tolerable spirits. Give 
daily four grains of the hydriodate of potash. 
1 5th. — She is better than the male, but I do not like her ; 
her appetite fails her, her coat stares, and the cough is sadly 
painful. Double the quantity of the medicine. 
18^. — Feeds better, takes more exercise, coughs less. Same 
medicine. 
21 st. — .Continued improvement. Same medicine. 
23c?. — I saw her to-day in one of her worst fits of coughing. 
It was short, cut short , shaking the whole frame, but interrupted 
by pain. However more favourably she may appear to go on 
than the male, she must die. Give her also some of the blood, 
with calomel in it. 
25th , 2 7th. — See account of male. 
28 th, 30 th. — See account of male, with the exception that the 
medicine purged the female briskly. 
June 1st . — She still purges, and has strongly the convulsive 
motion alluded to. She refused all food. 
5th. — She begins to take a little milk : let her have as much 
as she likes. 
9th. — She was sick after food, and cannot be induced to look 
at any thing eatable or drinkable. 
12 th. — She took a little milk yesterday, and was sick after it, 
and vomited a considerable quantity of bile : she would not take 
any thing afterwards, but, this morning, she lapped a quart of 
milk. 
15 th. — See account of male. 
