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A TREATISE ON ELEPHANTS. 
water be very cold, the chill should be taken off. The animal should 
not be bathed till the effects of the physic have passed off. It often 
takes from i6 to 24 hours for the physic to operate, and its action 
continues for from 4 to 12 hours at intervals. If a purgative 
hangs fire," a little walking exercise, or a soap-and-water enema, 
will hasten its action. Debilitated and otherwise delicate animals, 
should only receive mild purgatives. Diet should be restricted while 
the animal is undergoing physic. Gruel in moderate quantity only 
is to be allowed. The animal should be kept quiet and the body 
clothed. 
Curative — 
No. I. 
* Opium ... ... ... 3 drs. 
Ginger ... .0. ... | oz. 
Caraway seed ... ... ... | oz. 
Jaggery ... ... ... A sufficiency. 
Every four hours till relieved. 
No. 2. 
Tincture of opium ... ... 3 ozs. 
Sweet spirits of nitre ... ... 3 ozs- 
Aromatic spirits of ammonia ... i| ozs. 
Soaked in bread, mixed with boiled rice and given in straw packets. 
OR 
No. 3. 
* Opium ... ... 3 drs. 
Chalk ... ... ... 2 to 3 ozs. 
Catechu ... ... ... 2 ozs. 
Twice daily. 
(Also see Formulae i to 10 and 82 to 84.) 
Alcoholic stimulants, such as brandy, rum, whisky, given in grueL 
Ordinary lime-water mixed with gruel often proves beneficial. 
Dysentery. 
This condition is uncommon and is manifested by intermittent 
griping pain accompanied by discharge of liquid dung mixed with 
blood and slime. 
* Ganja (Irdian hemp) in doses of 3 to 4 drachms may be substituted for the- 
opium. 
