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he must be forthwith subdued to his proper level. I had heard 
the animal cough two or three times, but I did not suspect how 
confirmed was the pulmonary disease. 
But, then, the symptoms of this pleuritic affection which so 
suddenly destroyed the animal. Why, seeing these patients only 
occasionally, and generally at rest, and they having no power to 
answer the questions he should wish to put to them, the veterinary 
surgeon has not a fair chance ; and even if he had a better chance, 
he must go to school for a long while ere he will recognize the 
early symptoms of such patients. 
Acute Inflammation of the Respiratory Passages. 
Jan. 5, 1834. — Llama. When its place was cleaned out 
this morning, the animal would scarcely rise, and exhibited none 
of its habitual ill temper. It ate part of its morning’s food, but 
soon returned to its house and lay down again. In the afternoon 
I saw it; it had rallied, and was quite itself. I watched it — the 
flanks were perfectly quiet, and I could not see any symptom of 
illness. It took some carrot from my hand, and as usual, tried to 
spit a portion of it in my face. Give three grains each of calomel 
and antimonial powder. 
6th . — It died in the course of last night. The abdomen pre- 
sented nothing wrong, except slight inflammation of the liver ; 
but the whole of the respiratory apparatus exhibited inflamma- 
tion of the intensest character. The fauces and larynx, the in- 
vesting and lining membranes, were of a uniformly deep red hue, 
inclining to purple : it was the same along the whole of the 
trachea, and in the bronchi. The lungs, where they were not 
indurated (a considerable portion of them consisted of a grey, 
granulated condensed substance, grey externally, and white when 
cut into), were in the highest state of congestion, and in the 
midst of this disorganized pulpy mass numerous tubercles of 
different sizes could be felt. 
The heart was in a state of marked dilatation. It was flaccid, 
the pleuritic coat discoloured, and the lining membrane of both 
ventricles, and of the left one particularly, most highly inflamed. 
A very little additional fluid in the pericardic bag —none in the 
thorax. 
It is difficult to conceive of inflammation like this being set 
up without apparent cause — it is more difficult to connect it with 
the absence of every symptom of acute disease. 
Phthisis, obscure during Life. 
May 2d, 1834. — Black Axis Deer. He has been losing 
flesh, and occasionally breathing hard during two or three weeks ; 
