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open. About a month after his appetite began to fail again. 
Sometimes he would stay several days without eating, and still 
no outside symptoms of sickness could be detected. After lin¬ 
gering some time until the end of March he was found dead in 
his stall. 
At post mortem, the right kidney was the seat of a large 
abscess containing about fourteen ounces of very offensive pus; 
the walls of the abscess were adherent to the abdominal sides 
and to the right lobe of the liver. The left kidney was of nor¬ 
mal size, congested, and offered in the cortical substance on its 
surface two abscesses of small size. 
2. Lingual abscess in a tapir .—Some time later another tapir, 
placed in a stall alongside of this one, was suddenly taken with 
watering at the mouth and loss of appetite. The mucous mem¬ 
brane of the mouth being congested, the assistant swabbed it 
with a solution of chlorate of potass. Four days afterward lie 
died, and a deep abscess was found in the substance of the 
tongue. 
3. About the same time, in the same menagerie, a zebu had 
a large abscess under the parotid gland, and— 
4. A female camel, nursing a young camel calf, had several 
lingual and molar abscesses. These last animals recovered with¬ 
out trouble. 
5. Constipation—urinary calcules in a male camel .—On the 
21st of January I was called to examine a male camel, aefed, 
which had been ailing for the past few days. At my arrival I 
found that he had had no passage from the bowels for about a 
week, and that for forty-eight hours he had been making violent 
efforts to micturate, without success. A little drop of bloody 
urine was found at the end of the penis. The animal was quite 
uneasy, moving from side to side, from one leg to another, and 
making violent efforts to micturate, but still without result. On 
examining the rectum, I found the colon full of hard fcecal mat¬ 
ter, and the bladder enormously distended. 
A diagnosis was made of constipation with retention of urine, 
probably from reflex action. Several attempts were made to in¬ 
troduce a catheter, which proved unsuccessful. Not knowing the 
