Chap. VII.] 
THE ELEPHANT. 
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Of the 72 who died in one year's servitude, 3.5 ex- 
pired within the first six months of their captivity. 
During training, many elephants die in the unaccount- 
able manner already referred to, of what the natives 
designate a broken heart. 
On being first subjected to work, the elephant is 
Jiable to severe and often fatal swellings of the jaws and 
abdomen. 1 
From these causes there died, between 1841 and 1840 . 9 
Of cattle murrain , .10 
Sore feet 1 
Colds and inflammation ....... 6 
Diarrheea . . „ . . , . . . .1 
Worms 1 
Of diseased liver ,. 1 
Injuries from a fall ........ 1 
General debility ........ 1 
Unknown causes . .3 
Of the entire, twenty-three were females and eleven 
males. 
The ages of those that died could not be accurately 
stated, owing to the circumstance of their having been 
captured in corral. Two only were tuskers. Towards 
keeping the stud in health, nothing has been found so 
conducive as regularly bathing the elephants, and 
giving them the opportunity to stand with their feet in 
water, or in moistened earth. 
Elephants are said to be afflicted with tooth-ache; 
their tushes have likewise been found with symptoms of 
internal perforation by some parasite, and the natives 
assert that, in their agony, the animals have been known 
1 The elephant which was dis- letter, was " very like scarlatina, at 
sected by Dr. Harrison of Dublin, that time a prevailing disease ; its 
in 1847, died of a febrile attack, skin in some places became almost 
after four or live days' illness, scarlet." 
which, as Dr. H. tells me in a private 
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