The St. Cloud journal., 1871-05-11
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Wnle We are supremely interested
IN our own aches and ailments, it may
De we'll TO know that man is not the On.
y pavtaker If "the ILL that flesh is
helr TO-" There is another race in the
animal % kingdom w.:oh is subject to :
diseases; foor.footed beasts, birds, snd
even reptiles fall sick, suffer and die.
just IS man does but without his med
icina) comforts, unless, perchauoe, that
they have been brought under his care:
and even that Is sometimes q fatal to
them as it is to Us.
~ In our Central Park is 3 village Of
savage equadrupeds, fsathered aud Creep
ing things Of Ill kinds, which have
been gathered there from all parts of
the ~0rid: Anybody may 60 to sec
them, and the curious visitor probably
thinks, If he thinks At Ill about it, that
these varioas creatures are always
In the full enjoyment Of their animal
lite. Not 50. They have diseases and
they have doctor who has his profes,
sional anxieties and prescriptions.
He looks into their eyes, watches their
appetites, notices their actions, and, a.
though he cannot count their pulses by
the tick Of his watch, nor examine
their tongues with that gravity which
Is becoming to medical man, he is
able to form . pretty good es lite a.
to the general health of each individual
in this strange community. ia =,akes
u record of the sick ones the diagonis,
the treatment, and:the result, are writ
ten down with professional concisenoss.
For example:
Jan. A.-Panther Joe taken sick,
feverish, continual vomiting, gave him
sugar and water.
Feb. 1.-Panther Joe still down,
has taken no food, gave him tartar eme-
tic threw off considerable yellow fluid
from stomach.
Feb. 6.-Pantber Joe eaten nothing
yet, tried hin with a bird, also With
milk, will take nothing but v,tsr.
Then few days sfer it Is noted that
Joe has eaten little raw meat, and il
getting better Of his bilious fever.
Another panther gives birth to four
cubs. Two days after the mother is
very nervous and restless. She takes
the cubs ia her mouth carries them
about lays them down and picks them
up again. Is she not longing for "a
lodge in some vast vilderness," where
she may have freedom aud enjoy her
young oaes, shelter from the eyes Of
these civilized visitors7 The doctor
covess her cage With . canvas. But
her nervousness increases. She kills
two Of her cubs by clioching her teeth
through their bodies. No doubt it Vas
an accident. They take away the 9th
or two aud feed them from . bottle.
They are given to = dog who suckles
them with her pups, and by her aid,
a!ternated with an infants nursing.
bottle, they get On finely. Th. record
says that on the ninth day one of tho
cubs opens an eye; on the tenth day,
both have tbeir eyes open; on the
twentieth day, their canine and incisor
are cut on the fortisth dsy, they be-
gin to lap, when the dog will not allow
to suckle any longer, aud the young
Panthe-s A.. put m exhibition.
= One morning, . prairie VOLTS seized
with fit. The doctor Is called, aud
treats her with water bath, bleeding
and salt. The next day she is no bet
ter, and on the third day she dies of
hydrophobia.
The chances Of death in this colony
Of animals is much the same as in any
of our town communities. We arc sur
prised to 6ne that monkeys take cold
easily, suffer with liberated sore-throats,
and die of consumption. Mr.. Darwin,
the celebrated naturalist, has proved
that man is descended from T. non
key; which may be true Of t.. fav.
ored few 10 whom tho family . enes is
unmistakable !! But it Is strange shat
he has not used this fact in snp.
port Of his theory, namely, that the
monkey is consumptlve, like man ;
that mcrc monkeys, as more men, die
Of consumption than Of any other dis
ease. And when We see that this IN
cestral family is chilled by the same
cast winds that chill our own bones,
that it suffers with pulmonary diseases,
just as the family of man does, Ne can
sympathizs with Mr.. Darwin, even if
we have no fath in his arguments.
They die Of everything, in this
dumb kingdom. A young camel. died
from enlargement Of the heart. 4
rattlesuake died from cancer in The
mouth, while an anaconda was 90 i'm.
prudent Is to choke itself in an 1t.
tempt to swallow its blankst. : a pen
urious ostrich poisoned itself VIII eop.
per pennies; . beautiful toucax itom
Mexico swallowed . h.ir-pin, producing
fatal ulcer; aud that brightest and
most intelligent Of dumb ereatures-a
Labrador seal-was killed through its
Ignorance of the wicked tricks of viai-
tors. It's stomach was found to be full
Of "stones, nails, screws, shells, but.
.tons," which these thoughtless people
hadgiven him.
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