DOUBLE PNEUMONIA IN A SEA LION. 
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six quarts; again diet for twelve hours, after that give the drench, 
prepared as given below; then feed for twenty-four hours. 
After that again diet twelve hours, then bleed lightly from two 
to three quarts ; diet again for twelve hours and give the second 
drench, then twenty-four hours fasting, and afterward feed well 
in secular seculorum .” 
The drench is prepared as follows : 
“ Assafoet., ) 
One gallon of beer; boil the whole in a kettle closed with a 
bladder for eighteen hours; let it cool off, and give half of that 
emulsion at each drench.” 
{To be continued .) 
DOUBLE PNEUMONIA IN A SEA LION. 
By J. Kemp, Jr., D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
A female sea lion, belonging to the “largest show in the 
world,” was sent to the menagerie of the Central Park on the 
16th of June. She appeared to be in line condition, but pos¬ 
sessed the peculiarity that she did not go into the water as 
other lions are in the habit of doing, especially at feeding times, 
unless compelled to do so by the keeper. Her appetite continued 
to be good, and she ate her food regularly until the second day be¬ 
fore her death, which took place in the night of the 8th of De¬ 
cember. Her body was sent to the American Veterinary College 
for post mortem inspection. The following lesions were disclosed : 
On separating the two thoracic extremities, the chest was found 
much distended, and the intercostal spaces, far apart, showed the 
intercostal muscles bulging out, which suggested the suspicion 
that the trouble existed in the thorax. The animal being placed 
on her back, a section was made through the costo-sternal articu¬ 
lations, and the sternum removed. The cavity of the chest was 
filled with a very dark serosity, about three quarts in quantity. 
On removing the lungs the third or middle lobe of each was 
