Chap. VII.] THE ELEPHANT. 227 



Of the 72 who died in one year's servitude, 35 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 

 liable to severe and often fatal swellings of the jaws and 

 abdomen. 1 



From these causes there died, between 1841 and 1849 . 9 

 Of cattle murrain . . . . . . . .10 



Sore feet . . . J . . .. . . 1 



Colds and inflammation . . . J, . . G 



Diarrhoea ........... 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 five days' illness,, scarlet.' * 

 which, as Dr* H. tells me in a private 



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