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ject than a tiger. Hence may have arisen their inflamed lungs, 
the disposition to phthisis being previously existent in one of them, 
and perhaps in both. 
The lesson to be learned is, the advantage, perhaps I may say the 
necessity, of sleeping dens behind the front ones, for the larger and 
more valuable and delicate carnivora. 
Had these animals lived to the 22d of the next month, two 
years would have elapsed without the loss of either lion, tiger, or 
leopard, although we have now no fewer than twelve of these ani- 
mals under our care. 
Cerebral Affection. 
1826. Jan. 4 th . — A large spaniel, belonging to Mrs. Cutforth, 
has for three or four months been annoyed with some inexplicable 
nervous disease. Sometimes he wanders round the room for two 
successive hours. At other times he will lie and pant, as if he were 
almost about to die. If his head is lifted up he falls into a passion, 
and attempts to bite even his mistress. The eyes are red, and with 
a peculiar appearance of protrusion. The bowels have been in a 
torpid state, and it has been necessary to administer an aperient 
every third or fourth day. At times we have not been content with 
occasional laxatives, but we have pushed our purgation to a very 
considerable extent. Emetics have also been repeatedly tried, 
and tonic medicines of various kinds : but all without the slightest 
avail. 
Yesterday, without having been exposed to unusual cold, and 
without any probable cause to which such an effect could be traced, 
he lost the use of his hind limbs. He is unable to stand for a mo- 
ment. Give three drops of the croton oil in two drachms of the 
syrup of buckthorn, and administer injections. The appetite of 
the dog is not in the slightest degree affected. 
§th . — The physic has had its effect, but there is no improvement 
as regards the paralytic affection. Rub the rheumatic embrocation 
(sp. tereb., ammon. et camph. aa 3 H, tr. opii 5 i) well into the loins 
and sacrum. 
7 th . — Refuses to eat, or, if he eats a little, is immediately sick, 
and frequently moans and cries. Give a little aperient medicine, 
with double the quantity of syrup of poppies. 
9 th . — Refuses all solid food, and, when he drinks, whether it 
be water or milk, he vomits almost immediately. There has not 
been any faecal evacuation since the 6 th. A two-drachm aloetic 
ball was administered, and which had the desired effect ; the poor 
dog, however, moaned more and more, and would only lie on the 
cold stones. I obtained the owner’s consent to destroy it in the 
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