LEECHES. 
covered and allowed to stand for half an hour or so, after which the 
liquid may be strained through a piece of calico. If the elephant 
has been standing in a shed, it is essential that all woodwork be 
thoroughly washed with boiling water, to which crude carbolic acid 
or phenyle has been added. All gear had better be destroyed by 
fire, or at least be saturated with carbolized boiling water. This 
should be repeated daily for two or three days. 
Poultry, which are proverbially full of vermin, should not be 
allowed in elephant sheds. 
Leeches (G^oiiogjcS). 
Family Hirudins. During the rains the large water and land 
leeches may attach themselves and when fixed will suck blood 
freely until they become distended to very many times their original 
size. They should not be removed forcibly. The ordinary Burmese 
method, namely to place the lighted end of a selaik (Burmese 
cheroot) in close proximity to their bodies soon causes them to 
relax their hold. 
