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A. LIAUTARD. 
about 50 pounds of hay sprinkled with water. She came from 
the winter headquarters at Bridgeport to the Madison Square 
Garden on Wednesday morning, the 19th of March. In the 
evening, at eight o’clock, she looked as usual, and was fed. The 
next morning, when her keeper opened her cage, he found her 
lying down, dead, in a position indicating that she had succumbed 
almost without a struggle, her bedding not being disturbed in the 
least, and no special noise having been noticed during the time 
by the watchmen. 
She was brought in her cage to the hospital of the American 
Veterinary College, where a post-mortem examination was made 
by me, assisted by Dr. Coates and the two house surgeons, Drs. 
Kay and Critcherson. 
On the opening of the cage the animal is found lying on her 
right side, the legs folded under the body, in her usual position, 
the head resting on the floor; the body is in good condition. A 
bloody mucus discharge escapes from both nostrils. Dragged 
outside of her cage by a number of men with ropes and pulleys, 
she was lowered on two dissecting tables, placed on her back, and 
her extremities secured to standards at each corner of the table. 
An incision was then made on the median line of the body, 
from the chine down to the pubis, and the skin, which was found 
more than an inch thick, was dissected from the body. The ab¬ 
dominal muscles being removed, the internal viscera were exposed 
and taken out. The entire mass of the small intestines seems to 
be healthy, except in the anterior portion, and contain a bloody 
fluid; the mucous membrane is somewhat congested, and in some 
parts of a dark color and softened. This condition exists princi¬ 
pally at the anterior extremity, or about a foot and a half from 
the pylorus. The large intestines are tilled with fecal matter, 
the mucous membrane being slightly congested and softened. 
On removing the stomach, a large nodulated tumor shows 
itself, between the sesophageal and pyloric openings, at the small 
curvature, filling it in its whole extent, round in its principal 
mass, and showing shoots of hard masses running alongside of 
the small curvature of the pyloric portion of the small intestine. 
This tumor is a tuberculous mass, hard, indurated, which on sec¬ 
tion shows a dense, fibro-granular aspect. In the single stomach 
