Show HAD EIGHT FEET FET OF SORE THROAT 4 Valuable Giraffe in Circus Has Serious erious Illness Iness a HOW ATOMIZER WAS WORKED DOCTORS AND KEEPERS BAD TO DOCTOR A XE J STAND STA ON Ol LADDERS j S A NY man Who vho ho has hag known the miseries AXy jr of ot a cre throat will 1 have some Jome idea what hat It means to have that affliction spread over oer a t throat roat eight feet feet long Poor Nellie the giraffe in inthe Inthe Inthe the Brothers circus has ha been suffering from a cold and sore throat throat affecting the whole enormous area of her respiratory tract tra t Nellie Nele stands st over sixteen sixt en feet high from her hoofs to the top of her horns Of 01 this height about eight feet teet are taken up by her graceful slender tapering neck Like all giraffes Nellie Is very delicate and receives the th most unremitting and ad scientific care car Through an unavoidable unavoidable able accident she caught cu cold during the recent changeable weather Always a very ery reserved animal she shedid shedid shedid did nothing at at first to call attention to her sufferings Before BeCore her physicians and keepers realized that anything had happened to her she was suffering from a severe evere cold of the influenza type complicated with a sore throat The water flowed from her beautiful large dark eyes eye and her pretty nose Her larynx vocal chords and other othe othe parts of or the throat could be felt swollen and hard under the Hie skin Poor Nellie Nele developed a most excruciating elating cough It was agonizing and almost eternal In its Is slowness It I sounded like a smokestack trying to cough up UD some obstruction Nellie NeUe rested rest her neck against the te side of or the cage and groaned with pain It was truly heartrending to think that every inch of or that marvelous neck lek was sore stiff str and inflamed Try T to th Save Saye Her Her er life L fe feThe e eThe The authorities decided that some something something something thing would have hae to be b done for Nel Ne Nellie Nelle Nelie lie le at once or a precious giraffe would quit a n cold hard had world for good All AU AUthe the animal physicians and most ex experienced experienced keepers were called caled in con coa consultation To o relieve the pain and in inflammation temporarily a mild mUd spray spry of or one pint Dint of cocaine was adminis administered administered This save gave Ie Nellie marked relief re relief lief Ue I IThe The next step was to protect her throat during the remainder of her Illness A band of ot warm dry flannel twenty long was procured A A ter tet attached by ropes rov to the tha te ceiling was put ut on Nellies neck neck In order to hold It Jt steady tead Two men ren standing on chairs and ladders wound this care carefully cre carefully fully around aroun Nellies le neck so as to cover it i completely without compress compressing compres lug ing It This was W wa lightly stitched up with a needle and thread A sort of flannel dressing gown was wa then built bunt to cover the rest of ot Nellies person Before these steps ste s were w r taken an order had been leen sent to a great groat gret firm of chemists to manufacture a nose and throat atomized of appropriate size gize immediately and regardless of ot expense This was made madlY of similar shape to those used by human humn beings The bot bottle botte bottie tie tle te Dart part of i It however held ld a quart of Instead of the one or two ounces of the ordinary atomized The atomizing process was wa carried out by means of a bulb as a large as a football The liquid was of or hydrogen which is an excellent antiseptic Is ex ea extremely e cleansing cleaning and ad Is peculiarly good for sore eore throat Some hing and fragrant balsamic medicaments were mixed with wih it lt Working the Atomizer One man held this thi apparatus a aratus while another took t k the bulb In both hands hand and squeezed SQueeze It It The liquid was a first fir pumped Into Nellies Neles mouth Not be being belag I lag ing used to It and not caring crIng for Jor the flavor particularly she r returned turn d most I much good go d But she he Is an amiable ani animal animal anima mal ma and In a little while the e doctors doctor were able to persuade her that the treatment was for her good After that the spray soray wa was adminis administered administered regularly once an hour and the distressing symptoms In the throat and head were kept in check At the same time a diet suitable to a giraffe with abad a abad a bad cold was provided This included warm bran mash boiled onions and a little Ite hot hot whisky and nd water Large doses of ot soothing paregoric were also administered every two or three hours In spite spie of a all l these precautions and the good goo resul resu s which the giraffe showed at the beginning of treatment she sh had a very serious relapse during the second night nl ht of her Illness iness The attendants who stayed up p nil all al night with her at one time despaired of pull pulling pul pullIng ing her through Her temperature rose roseto roseto roseto to degrees Fahrenheit while the pulse fell fel to 5 per ner minute She was suffering from roman an acute fever rever The poor animal rIled her neck ceaselessly from side to side and groaned out of the depths deaths of ot her throat while her great eyes eras were filled fled with th tears and an expression lon pf t unutterable woe The devoted physicians and attend attendants attendants ants sat at her head perched on top I of oC their ladders all aU night night They ad administered admInistered administered ministered large quantities of or anti ant from time to time to keep down the fever feer They Tiey T ey carefully mopped up the perspiration which rolled off of herin her herin herIn in rivers At daybreak the watchers were ere de delighted delighted lighted to see the suffering giraffe drop into a soothing sleep When she awoke from this the crisis had passed There Thereafter Thereafter after she made slow alow but b U t steady steady progress progress ress rem to recovery |