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turbance attempts that are frequently one of the worst 

 forms of man's ill-usage or cruelty. 



At present there is not, so far as I am aware, a single 

 hospital in any part of the world that either devotes itself or 

 one of its departments to the treatment of the mental diseases 

 of the lower animals, or indeed that recognises in them 

 insanity at all. For the ordinary bodily ailments to which 

 domestic animals are liable there are here and there well- 

 appointed public hospitals or infirmaries ; for instance, those 

 attached to the veterinary schools of France and Germany. 

 In our own country there is only one such hospital, and it 

 is of recent establishment the Brown Institution, London, 

 which, however, is doing excellent scientific work of an 

 experimental character, under the auspices of Prof. Burdon 

 Sanderson and Dr. Klein. There is also in London a canine 

 hospital, of a private character, however, and on a most 

 limited scale. In Paris there are canine hospitals or infir- 

 maries, according to Fleming, and he thinks that canine 

 infirmaries should be attached to or connected with all 

 veterinary schools, wherever situate. But there is equal 

 argument, surely, in favour of equine, feline, and bovine 

 infirmaries, as well as of separate hospitals for poultry and 

 cage birds. 



Much more appears to have been done in supplying 

 the lower animals with hospital succour and shelter, in 

 age, accident, injury, infirmity, sickness, disease, by Eastern 

 nations in former times than by Western nations of late 

 years. Thus there were hospitals for cats, dogs, mon- 

 keys, horses, or other animals in India, Egypt, China, and 

 Turkey. In Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujerat, there were 

 in 1839 no less than three hospitals where sick and lame 

 monkeys were cherished. Some, at least, of these Eastern 

 establishments, however, were not infirmaries for the treat- 

 ment of disease so much as mere homes for the maintenance 

 of a certain number and variety of animals. Thus the 

 monkey temple at Benares, which still exists, and which was 

 visited by the Prince of Wales in 1875, is said to c be re- 

 markable for a whole colony of Durga monkeys, which are 

 held most sacred by the Hindoos, and which are maintained 



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