Excerpt from A Manual of the Diseases of the Elephant: And of His Management and Uses Few veterinarians pay attention to the branch of their science with which we are about to deal and even those who do are rarely placed in professional charge of ele phants, facts which react on one another and retard the advance of this division of pathology. Such observations as have been made are mostly due to Transport and other Military and Civil Officers in whose way chance [has thrown the charge of elephants among multifarious duties of a very difierent nature. It is extremely creditable to such officers as Drs. Gil christ and Slymm and Lieut. Ouchterlony that, under such discouraging circumstances, they have done so much as they have on the spur of the moment as it were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.