172 The Wild Elephant. 



On being first subjected to work, the elephant is 

 liable to severe and often fatal swellings of the jaws 

 and abdomen.* 



From these causes there died, between 1S41 and 1849 . . 9 



Of cattle murrain ......... 10 



Sore feet ........... i 



Colds and inflammation ........ 6 



Diarrhoea i 



Worms I 



Of diseased liver ......... i 



Injuries from a fall t 



General debility i 



Unknown causes 3 



Of the entire, twenty-three were females and eleven 

 males. 



The ages of those that died could not be accurately 

 stated, owing to the circumstance of their having been 

 captured in corral. Two only were tuskers. Towards 

 keeping the stud in health, nothing has been found so 

 conducive as regularly bathing the elephants, and 

 giving them the opportunity to stand with their feet in 

 water, or in moistened earth. 



Elephants are said to be afflicted with tooth-ache ; 

 their tushes have likewise been found with symptoms of 

 internal perforation by some parasite, and the natives 

 assert that, in their agony, the animals have been known 

 to break them off short.^ I have never heard of the 

 teeth themselves being so affected, and it is just pos- 

 sible that the operation of shedding and the subsequent 



' The elephant which was dissected disease : its skin in some places became 



by Dr. Harrison of Dublin, in 1847, almost scarlet." 



died of a febrile attack, after four or " See a paper, entitled " A" f(rc//£^fi';V'«j 



five day.s' illness, which, as Dr. H. of Ceylon" in Fraser's Magazine for 



tells me in a private letter, was "very December 1S60. 

 like scarlatina, at that time a prevailing 



