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16///. — Brought yesterday into the monkey-house. Purges 
considerably — feeds very little. Still continues to cough badly. 
Will not take any exercise. Clothe them all. Give a desert 
spoonful of our black mixture — castor oil and the syrup of buck- 
thorn and poppies. 
1 7th. — The purging diminished, but the cough more trouble- 
some. Appetite tolerable. Give minute doses of opium — one- 
sixth of a grain, every fifth hour. As soon as he found out the 
cheat, which was towards night, he refused to eat. 
19///. — He would not take the drugged food. The opium was 
therefore discontinued, but he ate rice and sago and baked pears. 
The cough was very little abated. I think of the iodine, but 
am unwilling yet to resort to it. Give half a teaspoonful of syrup 
of ginger morning and night. 
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20th. — Appetite tolerable — moves about better — cough the 
same. Continue the syrup. We have generally found this the 
best, and often the only medicament, to preserve, in the slightest 
degree, the appetite and spirits of these animals. 
21 st. — Very little change, except that the cough and discharge 
from the nostril have increased. Continue the syrup and his usual 
food, and commence a course of iodine. 
22 d. - At the suggestion of Sir James Anderson, he was moved 
from the monkey-house to the kitchen, under the carnivora-house, 
and there put into a warm bath. He remained in the water six 
or seven minutes, when he was perfectly exhausted, and taken 
out. After he was thoroughly dried he rallied, and asked for 
some food. He, however, refused his rice and sago, but ate a 
pear. A little syrup of buckthorn and ginger was then ad- 
ministered. 
23 d . — A little more lively in the morning, but dull in the 
afternoon. His bowels are in good order, and he has fed tole- 
rably. All hope, perhaps, needs not to be abandoned ; but his 
cough and the discharge from nose have increased. That, pro- 
bably, was the consequence of his removal to the kitchen of the car- 
nivora-house, of which I was not aware until after it was done, 
but to which, perhaps, I should not have objected. The object 
was to prevent the diffusion of unhealthy gases from him among 
the other monkeys. 
24///. — The bowels are in good order, and he feeds tolerably. 
25///. — Very little change. Try what another warm bath will 
do for him. He remained in the water five minutes; and then, 
beginning to pant, he was taken out and rubbed dry. His clothes 
were put on him, and a blanket thrown over him. He lay there 
without moving for more than an hour. The castor oil mixture 
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