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could have breathed at all. The dilatation of the heart, and the 
violent heaving of the flanks, are satisfactorily accounted for. 
We had no chance with her, for she would at last take nothing 
but milk, and it was not often that she would sufficiently empty 
the vessel so as to get the whole or scarcely any part of the calo- 
mel with which we drugged it. 
Phthisis. 
April 29th, 1834. — Male Tiger. Coughs, with apparent 
attempt to get something from the throat, lie was taken ill on 
the same day, and with precisely the same symptoms as the 
female. Give three grains of emetic tartar in water. 
30 th . — Well puked by the emetic. Wait to see how the case 
will develope itself. 
May 4 th . — He is not right, and is frequently heard to cough. 
Give three grains of tartar emetic. 
5th , — He has been puked, and vomited two long portions of 
a tape-worm. The cough is relieved. Give daily two grains of 
calomel and the same quantity of antimonial powder. 
9th . — He coughs frequently and painfully. Continue powder. 
11 th . — More frequent cough, short, and interrupted ; the coat 
rough, the countenance anxious, and the appetite impaired. 
Give daily four grains of the hydriodate of potash. 
15^//. — I do not like this animal : the cough does not abate; 
he scarcely eats, takes no exercise, and heaves sadly at the 
flanks. Continue the hydriodate. 
18 th . — Every symptom aggravated. Double the medicine. 
21 st. — Still, I fear, getting worse. Continue medicine. 
23 d . — He has now given up eating, and it is impossible to 
get any medicine into him. He is constipated. Try him with 
some warm blood in which four grains of calomel have been 
placed. 
25th . — He took the calomel in a little blood, but it did not 
produce the slightest effect. Give eight grains in more warm 
blood. 
27 th . — He refused all food on the night of the 25th, but last 
night the medicine was taken in some blood. It has produced 
no effect. Wait during the day to see whether purging will be 
produced, and, if not, give the same quantity to-night. 
28 th . — The medicine was given, but it also failed to operate. 
Give them, if they can be induced to take it, three grains each 
of the farina of the croton nut. 
30£A. — The moment they tasted the croton, they (the female 
referred to at the beginning of this case, and this male) refused 
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