498 DISEASE IN WILD MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
glands and can be traced along the mesentery to the central lymphatic 
stalk. The mass involved the tissues of the mesentery and surrounds 
many coils of intestine. Cecum and first part of colon can be traced 
over its right side. Rectum is free except on right side where it is 
lightly attached to the mass. Epicardium is gray and irregularly 
thickened and the muscle just beneath serous membrane is pale and 
streaked with red lines. 
There have been three cases of tuberculosis of the 
internal male genital area, one of which was suspected of 
having been the primary seat of the disease ; it was de- 
scribed on page 315. The other two could have been sec- 
ondary since other points of morbid change were as old 
or older. One of these cases formed a tumor as large as a 
goose egg at the vesical neck, obstructing the flow of urine 
and blocking up the seminal vesical, in consequence of 
which paralytic distention occurred in the bladder while 
the vesicles were tightly filled with inspissated semen, A 
case of Fallopian salpingitis has also been cited. Two 
instances of cerebral tuberculomata have already been 
described. 
Camivora. This order has the reputation of being 
quite resistant to the tubercle bacillus, based upon the 
relative infrequency among cats and dogs in contrast to 
cows and swine. Some veterinary statistics cite the 
incidence up to 5 per cent., and occasional references 
may be found to tuberculosis in circus lions and tigers. 
Our records would suggest that in gardens the wild 
varieties of this order have about as much of the infection 
as the domestic carnivores, 3.5 per cent. The group is 
made of six Felidae, one Viverridae, three Canidae, six 
Procyonidae, and one Ursidae. The first family includes a 
lion, tiger, a jaguar and three smaller cats. The Canidae 
are all small foxes. The Procyonidae are all coatis. The 
features of this order are the occurrence of the fibro- 
ulcerative variety with cavitation in the Felidae and the 
caseous nodular abdominal and glandular disease in the 
coatis. All these animals, even those of the last named 
variety and pathological type, tend to show some tissue 
