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was then had recourse to, but she was once only deluded by that ; 
and, at length, scarcely losing condition, but refusing all food occa- 
sionally, and at other times taking a small quantity only of that 
which she had most scrupulously examined — the fits of coughing 
increasing in violence, and the labour of respiration likewise in- 
creasing — she died on February the 15th. The struggles of death 
were said to have been exceedingly violent. A considerable quan- 
tity of blood ran from her nostrils. 
There was not a vestige of disease in the abdomen, but the lungs 
were in a dreadful state. The greater part of them was filled with 
tubercles, from the size of a millet-seed to that of a pea. The 
bronchi and the air-cells were filled with a frothy, bloody, purulent 
matter. When the substance of the lungs was cut into, a reddish 
grey purulent fluid issued from every minute orifice. There were 
four distinct small vomicae. Each -of them would hold nearly a drachm. 
Between the integument and the parietes of the abdomen was a 
very considerable deposit of adipose matter, and still more within 
the abdominal cavity. 
On the 18th of January — the day after the female became ill — - 
the tiger, her constant companion, began to cough, and heaved al- 
most as violently as she did. There was the same appearance of 
pain and depression, the same pitiable countenance. He, too, was 
purged with the calomel and white antimonial powder, and, the 
bowels having been well opened, the iodine followed. 
Although the heaving at the flanks was as great as hers, he re- 
tained more strength ; and I believe that he would have eaten quite 
as much as when he was in perfect health. His bowels were kept 
constantly relaxed — the iodine was never omitted, and, occasionally, 
mercury in various forms was rubbed on his paws. 
There was a great deal of deception about him, and he, now 
and then, half persuaded us that he did not mean to die. 
We kept these animals together, because they were then quieter 
and happier : but it was pitiable to see him during the death strug- 
gles of the female. He hung over her, uttering the peculiar sniff 
of feline attachment, and tried to turn her over with his paw ; and 
when she was carried out of the den he watched her to the door 
of the repository, and then raised himself against the grate, to try 
to get another glimpse of her. At length, when she returned not, 
he lay down and buried his muzzle up to his eyes between his 
paws, and moved not, and could not be induced to move, for more 
than an hour. He then got up, walked a few times round his den, 
and neither his countenance nor his manner seemed to express that 
he thought any thing more about her. 
The examination of the tigress having shewn that her disease 
