The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
HOSPITALS FOR ANIMALS
By Frsder;e J. iiasLin.

restores the anisnars health. but should # fall to respond to the ministrations of the veterinary and the nurses, . suitable place is provided for the pa tent to pass the remainder of it's days in peace and ccntentment. or, if the owner prefers, the animal Is sent into sleep that knows no waking, where .t can dream of eternal cozy corners or limtless green fields, according to US nature. Some veterinarians treat only horses. cows and similar an- imals. Other persons. principally those who keep bird and pet animal stores, make . speciality of treating small pets. The well equipped veterinarian and an- iraal hospital, however. win take and handle the case of an elephant or Q canary bird with equal facility.
 Nearly every well conducted 500 has hospital for wild animals attached. The first of these was established at New York. The Philadelphia zoo has q pathological laboratory costing 3if,- 900. The work performed in these wild animal hospitals is wonderful. Recent ly an enormous rhinoceros, after being given quantities of anaestheffcs, had a cataract cut from its eye. Other in- teresting operations that have been performed in ZOO hospitals are the res noval of an abscess from an ostrich's head, the lancing of a canl<er in . boa vonstrfctor's mouth, the treatment of an ourang outang for tuberculosis by hy- podermfc injections, after his lungs had been tested with stethescops. and the removal of three-pound tumor from the check of . grizzly bear. < The elephant is very amenable to hospital treatment. Several years ago an elephant in Boston had fifteen strips of skiu each half . foot long and an inch wide. cut from as many other ele- plants, grafted over wound on his shoulder. Another elephant was treat ed by the Lorenz method of bioodlesE surgery for asdislocated leg. "Jewel." ,a big female elephant, with her trunk pulled three-inch nail from the sois of her foot after 1t had been uncoy-s cred by an animal doctor. perhaps the most strenuous of all animal operations was the removal of . tooth twelve inches long and four inches wide from the mouth of a giant elephant in MHx- leo City. After the animal had been chained and cocaine administered lo- oaIiy. a hole was bored through the tooth. an iron bar inserted. stout rope attached, and then four horses did the pulling. 4
 A day at an animal hospital is not lacking in variety. At one hospital re- centlys within an hours time a cat was placed in . strait jacket so keep tt quiet while a wound healed. pet monkey received vibratory massage treatment for atrophied muscles, and 6 prize dog, sick unto death, was pain- lessiy killed by commissioning eas- homie acid gas in an air-tight letl1a1 chamber. Some animal hospitals have laboratories attached where important experiments are carried on. Inyestigan, tors In these places have recently an. nounced the discovery of an anti-toxfn treatment for animals, in which tn- 5ections of seruraeinto the blood of cats, rabbits and monkeys have rendered. them immune to certain diseases. It Is predicted that new serums will be discovered which win result in eradi- eating rabies and distemper, two of the most fatal canine diseases.
 The life of the animal doctor is not Q path of roses. Some days he Is driv- en distracted by a multiplicity of calls upon him. Then again he passes days tn likeness. He Is not ordinarily 6 expectations man. but he is a firm be- liever in the sequence of cases. If one peculiar ease is brought to his atten- ton he immediately prepares for an- other of the same character. He fre- Quentfy feels that the beasts he treats are to be envied by him, and yet is iinvasiablya en nfi-vfyiseotfonist, He points out that an animal suffers iit- tie when compared to man: that do% nestle animals. except horses and mules Qo not as rule nave 70 W0Tks that wild animals may worry in cap- tfvfty, but their d0mesficated brethren except the s1uggers horse which takes the bit in his teeth and runs un- til he drops--do not; that no animals have to bother about what they shall eat, or wherewithai they shall be clothed; that the animal can be put out of misery while man must suffer, and finally, that the former has no after life to think of.
 The importance of veterinary surg cry ig being generally recognized. The army has a corps of veterinarians to look after it's cavalry horses and draft animals. Large numbers of animal doctors are employed by the Govern ment in the quarantine service in meat inspection. and other branches of the Department of Agriculture. States and cities are demanding them for milk in- spection and other work. To supply the demand many veterinary colleges are turning out hundreds of graduates every year.
 (copyright. 1903. by Frederic ,. Has.
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