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Now the rock on which some of my M.D. friends and myself 
split, is this: they contend it is a case of twins, with the death of 
me, while I think the mare never aborted during 1885, but car¬ 
ried this mummification in one of the horns of the uterus up to the 
ime of death, and that the contamination produced death. My 
entire belief is based upon the history of the case as obtained 
lorn her owner, and which I have given you to the best of my 
ibility. Mr. Pendleton is a thoroughly reliable man, shrewd on 
he questions of horseflesh, and one who immediately notices any 
jhange in the health of his animals. 
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DO LOWER ANIMALS HAVE TYPHOID FEVER? 
For many years it was contended that the so-called pig-ty. 
)hoid, or, as it is now known, infectious pneumoenteritis, was 
dentical with typhoid. French veterinarians have also claimed 
hat horses suffered from human typhoid fever; but the swine- 
)lague has been found to be a distinct disorder, and the question 
vhether the horse can have typhoid is still unsettled. 
Recently, how r ever, Dr. J. Bland Sutton {Journal of Compar¬ 
ative Medicine ,) brings forward evidence to show that monkeys, 
igers, and beavers may have enteric fever. 
In 1839 M. Raper describes an epidemic of this disease which 
j)roke out among the monkeys in the menagerie of the Museum 
PHistorie Naturelle, Paris. On this occasion M. Serres, who had 
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>reviously observed the affection in monkeys, dogs, and cats, and 
lad made careful preparations of the intestinal lesions, was able to 
aake careful observations on the animals during life. The syrnp- 
oms were very striking, being diarrhoea, increased frequency of 
mlse, and fever ending almost always in death. 
Dr. Bland describes cases of typhoid fever which he observed, 
n 1822, among the monkeys of the London Zoological Gardens. 
While making a post-mortem examination on a lemur which 
