TIGRESS SAVED BY PENICILLIN
LONDON Sui'geons at the London Zoo haye been battling to save the life of Byha, five-year-old Indian tigress. ■Suffering from pneumonia, she lay in the dim light and privacy of her lair behind her exkibition den, running a high temperature and showing no .interest in food. It was decided to give her penicillin, and Dr. T. A. Coclcburn injected some into her tail — probably the first time any tigress has been so treated. Now she is recovering 'and if all goes well she aird' her husband, Sahib will go back to the sawdust and lights of circus life in Hampshire, where they belong.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5298, 10 January 1947, Page 3
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107TIGRESS SAVED BY PENICILLIN Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5298, 10 January 1947, Page 3
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