son sensibly suggests " Freedom from unnecessary restrainfc, 

 liberty to graze at will, or if that bo impossible a tliorongh 

 change of food from dry to green or vice versa according to 

 what the animal has been having when the disease appeared; 

 and protection from all debilitating causes such as exposure to 

 the sun or inclement weather are the best preventatives and 

 restoratives." Slymm's suggestion that the animal be " let loose 

 to graze and find itself the various medicinal vegetables which by 

 instinct it is in the habit of eating" is open to the objection that 

 as we have seen, the disease may in some cases be communicable ! 

 " It is an undoubted fact that elephants when sick seek for and 

 devour certain plants and creepers, which at other times they will 

 not care to touch; and if allowed to graze daily in the jungle 

 merely hobbled, will rapidly regain health and condition. Gilchrist 

 tells us that the accumulated serous fluid may be di'awn off ■with 

 a trocar and canula or by puncturing the swelling with a fleam 

 having a blade IJ in. wide. 



Simple Fevee as a disease per se, seldom or never occurs, but 

 when dependent on internal Inflammation or preceding a specific 

 disorder it is sometimes severe. Symptmns : Animal dull, off 

 feed, thirsty, pulse accelerated, trunk cold and contracted, other 

 extremities and the ears generally cold. The first symptom may 

 be a shivering fit. Urine scanty and reddish in severe cases, in 

 others white and muddy. The animal tries to cool himself by 

 throwing water over the body and in bad cases there is a frothy dis- 

 charge from the eyes (Gilchrist). Treatment: Careful nursing 

 and a laxative dose of medicine followed by diffusible stimulants 

 and diuretics. Bleeding will seldom be required. The diet must 

 be light, cooling, and digestible, and the animal freely supplied 

 with water. 



Rheumatism, as might have been anticipated, from the large 

 amount of fibrous tissue entering into the structure of the 

 elephant is a common disorder especially on the march and in the 

 rainy season from exposure to cold and wet. It also is apt to 

 supervene on the animal when heated being taken to water. 

 Symptoms : The joints are principally afiiocted, the shoulder being 

 most often involved. The signs are swelling, acute inflammation 

 of a fugitive nature and liable to recur, giving lise to lameness 

 which may shift its seat from one limb to another. Treatment : 



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