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better spirits ; but I fear that it is losing flesh. Continue the 
powders. 
Jan. 1st, 1834. — Refuses the food which contains his medicine, 
but ate greedily a piece of apple which I offered to him. 
6th . — Has to-day begun to purge violently; refuses his corn, 
but will eat green food. Allow him carrots ; put his corn in a 
mash, with a drachm of the compound chalk powder daily. 
7th. — Died. No appearance of inflammation in the thoracic 
cavity, but a great part of the central lobe of the left lung em- 
physematous. The contents of the abdominal cavity discovered 
peritoneal inflammation universally diffused, and, strangely, with- 
out adhesion or deposit, and with very slight general discolour- 
ation, but where it did exist being of an intense character. This 
intense inflammation could have existed only a little while ; but 
there had probably been sub-acute inflammation for a long 
period, for the animal had not been well from the end of Novem- 
ber. There was no lesion of the mucous coat of the intestines. 
This sudden peritoneal inflammation is far from being unusual 
among ruminants of every kind. 
Dec . 17th, 1833. — Wandaroo Monkey dull, will not eat — 
short painful cough — give two grains of emetic tartar. 
18*A. — The cough is considerably relieved. Give morning 
and night one grain each of digitalis and antimonial powder. 
19 tli . — Still continues to improve : continue medicine. 
21st . — More listless and dull : continue medicine. 
24 th . — Evident change for the worse. 
2 5th. — Died. I expected to find the chief disease in the 
chest. There was emphysema and condensation of the sub- 
stance of the lung. I can hardly call it hepatization: — no tuber- 
cles. In the abdomen, sub-acute inflammation extended over 
the whole of the peritoneum. It was particularly evident on 
the omentum, which was much thickened. The diagnosis of 
peritonitis in these feree naturae is as yet sadly obscure. 
Dec. 31st . — Malabar Deer. The coat stares, the animal 
is out of spirits, and does not feed well. Give two drachms ol 
Epsom salts and one of ginger daily. 
Jan. 1st, 1834. — Found dead. The whole of the abdominal 
viscera presented the mingled appearance of severe peritoneal 
inflammation, and maceration in a fluid highly charged with 
blood. Of this fluid the abdomen contained about three quarts. 
I could not trace the blood to any particular viscus, and there- 
fore stripped oft' the skin from the belly. I then observed a 
