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neys there have been suggestions of preexisting nephritis 
but usually the findings are confined to those given above. 
At all events true glomerulonephritis is not often found. 
Monkeys which have this condition may or may not 
exhibit a behavior suggesting its existence. Sometimes 
it will be noted that the animal is dull and eats little, at 
other times the keeper will report that the cage is seldom 
wetted and we know of cases in which only an ounce or 
two of urine has been passed in a day. Two monkeys were 
distinctly ataxic and incoordinate and one of these had a 
convulsion. From one a specimen of urine showed 
albumen but no casts. 
These signs of renal affection are not always alone nor 
are the kidneys necessarily the only part diseased since 
postmortem records show a variety of accompanying 
lesions, bronchitis and enteritis, for example. There are, 
however, several cases dying in a few days after tuber- 
culin injection, both with and without tuberculosis, in 
which the renal changes were quite prominent; two 
examples, without tuberculosis, exhibited the damage to 
the kidneys very well and with no other evident visceral 
pathology. The relation of cause and effect may not be 
unequivocal, but these findings suggest that the condition 
of the kidneys deserves attention when tuberculin is to 
be injected. My associate, Dr. Corson-White, is firmly 
convinced that the substance whips up a preexistent 
parenchymatous disease and wants to see a urinalysis 
from every monkey that is in any way abnormal. 
The Tuberculin Test in Other Animals. 
Two cases of tuberculosis occurred in White-nosed 
Coatis {Nasua narica) so that it was decided to test their 
neighbors in the next cage. There is reproduced a com- 
posite (Y) of the temperature record of three of these 
animals after receiving 2 mg. of tuberculin under the skin. 
No tuberculosis was found in them at death, all dying 
