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wounded part witha transparent fluid secreted from their mouths. 
If a chimpanzee be wounded, it stops the bleeding by placing its 
hand dn the wound, or dressing it with leaves and grass, en 
an animal has a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes 
the amputation by means of its teeth. A dog on being stung in 
the muzzle by a viper was observed to plunge its head repeatedly 
for several days into running water. This animal eventually recov- 
ered. A sporting dog was run over by a carriage. During three 
weeks in winter it remained lying in-a brook where its food was 
taken to it; the animal recovered. A terrier dog hurt its right 
eye; it remained lying under a counter, avoiding light and heat, 
although habitually it kept close to the fire. It adopted a general 
treatment, rest and abstinence from food. The local treatment 
consisted in licking the upper surface of the paw, which it applied 
to the wounded eye, again licking the paw when it became ary. 
Cats also, when hurt, treat themselves by this simple method of 
continuous irrigation. M. Delaunay cites the case of a cat which 
lso that of 
eight hours under a jet of cold water. Animals suffering — 
traumatic fever treat themselves by the continued application 0 
cold, which M. Delaunay considers to be more certain than 
any of the other methods. In view of these interesting facts, we 
are, he thinks, forced to admit that hygiene and therapeutics, a 
practiced by animals, may, in the interests of psychology, . al 
studied with advantage. He could, thinks the British Me d 
dicine, aa 
me useful 
indications, precisely becaùse they are prompted by instinct, 
are efficacious in the preservation or the restoration of health. 
SUICIDE oF Scorrions—The following experiments made . 
two species of South African scorpions, by C. L. Morgan, ri us 
cate that they do not have any suicidal instinct. He a = 
signs of fresh wounds made by the sting. The nature of the 
periments were as follows . PPN 
1. Condensing a sun-beam on various parts of the p 
body. The creatures always struck with the sting roun®, ses i 
and over the heated spot, and seemed to try and remove the 
of irritation. : careful 
2. Heating in a glass bottle. As this admits of most in this 
watching, I have killed some twenty or thirty individuals : body, 
way. e creatures very commonly pass the sting Over ee point 
as if to remove some irritant. The poison exudes from 
of the sting and then coagulates. 5 
3. Surrounding with fire or red hot embers, I first took 4 ae 
paper, moistened a ring about a foot in diameter with ae cei 
placed a scorpion within the ring. e paper was, by Gre 
ignited. He walked without hesitation through the 
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