376 SELF-SUBMISSION BY ANIMALS TO 



going to a farrier's forge, or veterinary hospital, for the proper 

 remedy. 



A wounded cavalry horse in India went direct to the sick 

 horse stables : in other words, and in his own way, went to 

 hospital and reported himself sick (Wood). At home, ordi- 

 nary working horses frequently go voluntarily of and by them- 

 selves to the farrier's (Watson). Of one we are told that he 

 * trotted alone into a smithy where the day before he had 

 been shod. He was lame, and on pulling off one of his shoes, 

 it was found that a cruel nail had been driven into his foot.' 

 Mrs. Burton tells us of a Syrian mule that eloquently 

 appealed to her to get a two-inch nail removed from its foot. 

 She told its cruel drivers, who had not noticed the animal's 

 lameness, ( You are greater brutes than the mule. He knows 

 better than you do, and he came and told me himself .... 

 ' He hobbled up to me with his load, holding up the foot he 

 could no longer set upon the ground, with an expression of 

 mute, patient pain, which plainly said, e You are my last hope, 

 can you do nothing to save me ? ' ; 



A monkey at Berlin, mentioned by Lady Verney, having 

 a tumour requiring medical or surgical treatment, ' sub- 

 mitted patiently to the very painful remedies, swallowing 

 quietly unpleasant physic, as if content to believe that its 

 master knew best. The German report mentioned gravely 

 how ' polite ' (hoflich) it was in its manners when it was ill ; 

 and how it ' shook hands with its master before it died, with 

 an apparent knowledge that it was going away.' 



According to De la Brosse, a French navigator, who 

 visited Angola in 1718, a chimpanzee being seized with sick- 

 ness ' made the people attend him as if he had been a human 

 being. He was even bled twice in the right arm, and when- 

 ever afterwards he found himself in the same condition, he 

 held out his arm to be bled, as if he knew that he had for- 

 merly received benefit from the operation ' (Wood). Biich- 

 ner mentions an orang that died of alcoholic poisoning* 

 ' During his illness his pulse was often felt. Every time his 

 master came to his bedside he stretched out his paw to him.' 

 Watson cites the case of a pike, in which fractured 

 skull produced great pain, leading to fury and suicidal at- 



