MISBELIEFS ABOUT THE ELK 



was worn at the neck or on the breast. In other 

 cases the hoof was scraped with a file, and the 

 fiUngs thrown into wine, and taken internally; 

 or pieces were burned, and the smoke inhaled as a 

 relief in cases of epilepsy and hysterics.^ 

 In its time the most complete and highly es- 



Elk Attacked by Epilepsy (Pomet, 1735) 



teemed treatise on materia medica in Europe was 

 a work by Pierre Pomet of Paris. From this 

 we learn that the elk is extremely subject to 

 attacks of epilepsy, but is able to cure himself by 

 putting his left hind foot into his left ear. To 

 supply the drug trade with hoofs for use in the 



3 Dr. Dahms made an exhaustive study of this subject, and to his 

 article in Globus (vol. Ixxiv., pp. 219-220) the author is indebted for 

 much of the information here given. 



