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A TREATISE ON ELEPHANTS- 
OR 
Tincture of perchloride of iron (dilute) ... 
Water 
I oz. doses. 
A sufficiency. 
OR 
Gallic acid 
Jaggery 
I to I dr. 
Sufficiency. 
Every three hours. 
Diabetes. 
One form of diabetes is occasionally seen in the elephant, 
characterized simply by profuse staling. 
Causes. — In horses due to bad fodder and also to an undue 
proportion of saline matters in the water. It may be inferred that 
such causes may produce profuse staling in the elephant. 
Symptoms. — Passage of large quantities of pale watery urine, 
thirst, and gradually increasing loss of flesh. 
Treatment. — Care with regard to food and water, and change 
to another locality. 
The following may be tried :• — Iodide of iron in doses of 30 to 40 
grains two or three times a day. Opium in doses of 2 drachms 
twice or thrice daily. 
Tonics, especially arsenic, iron and nux vomica, are indicated 
[see Formulae 39 to 46): 
A condition somewhat like this disease in the horse may 
occasionally be met with in elephants. So far I have only seen it 
in yard elephants in Rangoon, and also in the elephant in the 
Zoological gardens which has suffered from two or three attacks. 
The attack usually occurs after a period of idleness. For no 
apparent reason a limb, hind or fore, may be found in the morning 
swollen, the animal being hardly able to place any weight on the 
affected limb, which is painful, the animal often being lame. There 
is possibly some fever, but the animals in which the condition was 
observed were unsafe to handle. In horses the cause is due to some 
irritation of the lymphatic glands, and the swelling due to materials 
thrown out into the surrounding conriective tissue as a result of the 
inflamed condition of the lymph glands and vessels. 
The condition may also arise from injuries such as wounds about 
the feet and limbs due to some septic infection. 
Lymphangitis. 
