158 CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
12/A.—They now occur two or three times daily. Double the 
quantity of the medicine. 
14^^.—The fits continue, and the bird gets decidedly weaker. 
Continue medicine. 
15^A.—The fits continue,and the bird is getting rapidly weaker. 
Give quarter of an ounce of the castor oil mixture daily. 
16^^.—Another of these birds is now epileptic. Give the 
mixture to both. 
18^A.—The fits are not so frequent in the first bird. The 
second has them several times in the day. Continue mixture. 
20th. —Both the birds are getting better; the fits are neither 
so violent nor so frequent. Continue mixture. 
22d. —No fits during the last two days. Omit medicine. 
2%th. —The fits have returned, and with them—they had not 
before been seen together—the staggering gait. Give the calomel 
and antimonial powder as before. 
April l5^.—The fits have again ceased. The birds are sadly 
poor, and I want to leave off physicking them as soon as I can. 
They very slowly recovered their appetite, flesh, and spirits, 
and became perfectly well. 
They are so at the present moment (Feb. 1838). 
HEPATITIS—ACUTE. 
1834, Jan. 23^^.— Cap year a. He refuses his food ; lies list¬ 
lessly about; the flanks are fallen in, and respiration quickened. 
Give six grains of calomel. 
25^/^.—The medicine operated well. He has not appeared to 
suffer much, but he died this morning without a struggle. 
He was externally unusually fat; internally there was little 
adipose matter. No inflammation of the intestines, but the 
omentum somewhat thickened, and adhesion between it and the 
fundus of the bladder. The liver was highly inflamed, and its 
substance almost pulpy. Some inflammation had been com¬ 
municated to the portion of the stomach in contact with it. The 
stomach contained half a pint of fluid that resembled blood and 
bile mixed. There had not been the slightest change in the 
food lately; but there had long been chronic inflammation, 
which, from some unknown cause, had lately taken on an acute 
character. 
ENTERITIS, WITH CONSTIPATION. 
1834, IsL— Ruffed Lemur. Dull—lying curled up 
in its cage—with difficulty induced to move—a sadly altered 
and depressed countenance—the muzzle cool, and no heaving at 
