Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . o Q O DC C\J HZ< I Q_UJ _JUJ Q Z L_O COQ< UJ I EPIDEMICS. 5U There is an epidemic disease, corresponding to murrain in cattle, fromwhich wild and tame elephants suffer at long intervals. It attacked theelephants in the Government stud at Dacca, in Bengal, about thirty yearsago, and carried off nearly fifty per cent of a total of upwards of threehundred. It lasted, with varying virulence, for more than ten years. Theanimals i
Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . o Q O DC C\J HZ< I Q_UJ _JUJ Q Z L_O COQ< UJ I EPIDEMICS. 5U There is an epidemic disease, corresponding to murrain in cattle, fromwhich wild and tame elephants suffer at long intervals. It attacked theelephants in the Government stud at Dacca, in Bengal, about thirty yearsago, and carried off nearly fifty per cent of a total of upwards of threehundred. It lasted, with varying virulence, for more than ten years. Theanimals in best condition suffered most; only two, both in poor condition,are recorded as having recovered after seizure. The symptoms were, break-ings-out and gatherings on the throat and legs, spots on the tongue, andrunning from the eyes. With the cessation of the flow from the eyes theanimals died, usually on the second day after attack. In 1862 a similarepidemic carried off large numbers of elephants in the Chittagong few years later the herds in the Kakankote jungles in Mysore wereattacked; but the mortality was not great, and the disease soon left. On
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