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those imposed by England are enforced by other countries against 
our trade: for it seems that only through the pockets of the ex¬ 
porter can the common-sense of our people be reached on this 
subject of animal diseases. There are no grounds as yet upon 
which to hope that the yearly loss of twenty million dollars’ worth 
of hogs will gain for the producer that protection to which he is 
justly entitled. It is only the interference with free exportation 
that gains governmental attention, even though such interference 
amounts to but a tenth part of the loss sustained direct from the 
disease in question. 
The fallacy of such tampering with this most important agri¬ 
cultural interest must sometime dawn upon the minds where now 
rests the responsibility, and let us hope it will come before we 
find ourselves the victims of preventible disasters greater even 
than those which now afflict us. 
COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY, 
By A. Liautard, M.D.,V.S. 
PIOGENIC FEVER IN A MENAGERIE. 
1. Parotid abscess in a tapir—abscesses in the kidneys .—In the 
month of January my attention was called to a tapir belonging 
to a menagerie in New York, which presented in the parotid re¬ 
gion a large swelling extending under the jaw, preventing him 
from swallowing his food. This swelling was hard, very painful, 
and in fact presented all the characteristics of a large sub-parotid 
abscess. Warm fomentations and poultices were prescribed, and 
the animal’s strength kept up with milk and whiskey. About 
forty-eight hours afterwards I detected, with difficulty, some deep 
fluctuations, and after exploration witli the aspirator relieved him 
of a large collection of pus, which kept on discharging for some 
days and healed without further trouble to the animal, his liveli¬ 
ness and appetite having returned as soon as the abscess was 
