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CHAPTER VII.
ON THE DISEASES OF CATS.
(Continued.)
Pneumonia, or Inflammation of the Lungs, is not an uncommon malady in
the cat, and the tendency to pulmonary
weakness appears to be transmitted
from generation to generation, and is
certainly more generally met with in
cats of foreign origin, as Persian, etc.,
than in our own native kind. In fact,
all the felines are evidently much more
liable to lung disease than are the dogs.
Nor are the larger forms exempt, for many a majestic lion, or a beautiful
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