The urine from the animal preserved in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, is in great demand to the present day as a tonic for the treatment of enlarged spleen. It was analysed by Col. L.A. Wadell in 1893 (Indian Medical Gazette, May), who found it to be alkaline in reaction to have phosphate in abundance.
The urine from the animal preserved in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, is in great demand to the present day as a tonic for the treatment of enlarged spleen. It was analysed by Col. L.A. Wadell in 1893 (Indian Medical Gazette, May), who found it to be alkaline in reaction to have phosphate in abundance.
The horn had virtues ascribed to it in Europe up to the 19th century.
blood, Burma. The dried blood of the rhino (Rh. sondaicus) is used in Moulmein as an important medicine under the name of Kyan Thwe. The blood is dried in the gut of the bowel and resembles black pudding. The price is one rupee per tical or one rupee in weight. It's valued by Burmans and Chinese. In the Mandalay drugs shops a substance similar to congealed blood is sold as a substitute for the more costly rhino blood. Its origin could not be ascertained.
In the Mandalay drugs shops a substance similar to congealed blood is sold as a substitute for the more costly rhino blood. Its origin could not be ascertained.
