The morning times., 1896-04-30
INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS.
They Show Sagaclty In Curing Them
SplNnS Of IIlnn-.,

They Show Sagaclty In Curing Them
selves of Illness.
Many animals provide against ineIement
weather, and the contingency OF want by
storing food and building places OF abode
and refuge, securing themselves against
want, cold, sto rms and their enemies.
They choose such food as is best suited
10 Them with the same degree OF certainty
that nature shows in digesting it, and re-
1ect improper or INJURIOUS articles OF food
with greater sagaclry than that afforded
by conscious intelligence.
30, likewise, In protecting themselves
against morbific causes. as infection. they
lnStlnctively resort to such measures as
scieHce has shown TO be the more efficsl-
cious namely, cleanliness. THey show
a rema arkable degree Of clairyoyance as TO
death. time Of delivery OF their YOUNG. and
weaniDg, ETC.. kind of forseeing in which
man Is deficient
Cattle seek certain herbs W hen ill-medici-
nal herbs, such as they would not eat when
well. Horses and other animals. when
suffering from chronic rheumatism, ex
pose themselves to the sun. Dogs and
other animals seek water in which to
battle their wounded limbs NJ, Delau-
nay, French writer, has recorded many
instances of instructive therapeutics among
the lower animals when suffering from
fever, infection, wounds, etc. He relates
the case or dog that. on being stang by Il
viper, held the part in running water for
days until it finally recovered.
He INSTANCES also the case OF a dog that
was badl y4atGred by Ecing run over by
carriage and that remained lying in n
brook during three weeks. The anirnal
recovered. A terrier wa sServerely W Ountled
In his right eye. 1t secluded itself from the
light and heat and ate light, &hste mious
diet. The wounded eye was treated with
spittlc applied by itself by means of its
paw, which 1t licked on its upper surface
and then applied it to the wound. This
it did repeatedly until the wound healed.
The cat shows similar sagacity i'll treat
ing its wounds M. Delaunay relates in
stances in which this animal, which In it's
normal state exhibits dread OF water, when
wounded, had sought the stream, in which
to battle and irrigate the wounded part.
The same is true of savages, but slightly
removed in the scale OF being from the
animal. The chimpaHZee, WREN wounded,
arrests bleeding by compression, and tlres sSes
the part with leaves and grasses. Low
bred savages dress their wounds in water,
lie in running water, abstain from food.
and drink nothing but water when suf-
fering from fever.
When infectious fevers, as small pox
break out in their camp, the camp, with
all its appurtances, is burned and It's in-
habitauts removed to fresher and more
wholesome quarters. These and other
similar psychical phenomena, showing un-
conscious willing to the fulfillment of a
conscious end, are put by the psychologist
in the category Of 'consensual impulses -
phrase which should deceive noone, since,
whatever phraseology the phenomena may
be disguised, their psycbical origin and
character remain to proclaim to US q most
| wonderful and awe-inspiring truth, namely,
that mind, is the genius of the world, the
po wer that designs, molds into form and
being, and determines the destiny. of oil
things.