Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Diseases of Animals in Menageries. [ARTICLE]

Diseases of Animals in Menageries.

Several kinds of quadrupeds in the London Zoo suffer from corns on their feet, dine to the hard floors, and these produce boring ulcers, which may extend clear through the foot. Hernia occasionally afflicts the monkeys, and a tiger has lately been killed by an accumulation in his intestines of sawdust swallowed with his food. These are new diseases in menageries. ■’ Ever? man who has lost a leg or an arm in defense of his fireside should be re-membered.