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continued about an hour, when the screams became less vio- 
lent, and assumed a resemblance, painful to hear, to the cries 
of a sick and sinking infant. This continued until two o’clock 
on the following morning, when they gradually subsided. He 
then was evidently attempting to free himself from the blanket, 
which with the assistance of the keeper he accomplished ; — then 
with an effort, of which a moment before he seemed to be inca- 
pable, he flung his arms around the keeper’s neck, and clenched 
his hands for nrmer hold — he threw back his head a little, and 
brought it before that of the keeper, gazed intensely on his face, 
with an expression which the man says he never shall forget:— 
and so he continued one or two minutes, when his hold gradually 
loosened, his arms fell, and he had died without a struggle. 
He was examined on the following day. It so happened that 
I could not be present, but Mr. Martin favoured me with the 
post-mortem appearances. “ The death of the chimpanzee re- 
sulted from great visceral disease. The spleen was tuberculated, 
and united to the adjacent viscera by strong adhesions. The 
lower portion of the ileum was extensively ulcerated, and in 
several places the coats of the intestines were completely de- 
stroyed, and, had it not been for extensive adhesions at this 
part, the contents of the bowels must have escaped into the ab- 
dominal cavity. The caecum also participated in the disease. 
The mesenteric glands were morbidly enlarged, and the liver 
w r as also diseased, its colour being of a greyish yellow, exhibiting 
the minute portal vessels gorged with blood. The lungs were 
tolerably healthy, but the substance somewhat firmer than in 
their natural state. They may be said to have been hepatized 
in a slight degree ; they were, however, unobstructed. Denti- 
tion had nothing at all to do with the affair.” 
MONTHLY ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF 
THE LONDON VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
March ls^ 1836. 
The subject for discussion this evening was glanders, intro- 
duced by Mr. Hill. 
The question which caused the greatest difference in opinion 
among the members was, — Is this disease as infectious as it is 
usually thought to be ? By the majority this was answered in the 
negative. Inoculation it is well known will give rise to it, but 
