

exhaustion, or with poisoning resulting in pa- 

 ralysis of the muscles. Certainly the method, 

 if somewhat crude, might still have wrought 

 enough cures to be looked upon with venera- 

 tion by a people who unfortunately had no 

 knowledge of chemical drugs, or Scotch 

 whisky, or sugar pellets with an ethereal 

 suggestion of intangible triturations some- 

 where in the midst of them. 



That the animals do practice at times a 

 rude kind of medicine and surgery upon 

 themselves is undeniable. The only ques- 

 tion about it is, How do they know? To 

 say it is a matter of instinct is but begging 

 the question. It is also three-fourths fool- 

 ishness, for many of the things that animals 

 do are beyond the farthest scope of instinct. 

 The case of the deer that moved about and 

 so saved his life, instead of sleeping on 

 heavily to his death, may be partly a case 

 of instinct. Personally it seems to me more 

 a matter f experience ; 

 for a fawn under the 

 same circumstances, 

 unless his mother were 



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