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proper treatment when it is acquired, a great step would have been taken 

 to amehorate their sad condition. Such methods of instruction are now being 

 put in force, and I beUeve their value vnH ere long be apparent. 



Gonorrhoea is common, and is called Salan in Egypt and Bagal in the Sudan.' 



(3) Surgical Affections 



Concerning these I do not feel qualified to speak. All that one would say is 

 that sarcoma and carcinoma both occur, and there have been some cases tending to 

 prove that the native who has never lived in contact ■with the white man is 

 not immune. 



One may also note the frequency of both inguinal and umbilical hernife. 



" Veterinary Diseases " 



As regards veterinary diseases, parasitic worms are very prevalent in 

 horses, and I have httle doubt, account for a good deal of the mortality amongst 

 these animals. The armed strongyles which produce thrombosis, aneurism, and 

 death occur as does Spiroptera microstoma which causes curious cystic tumoui's 

 in the walls of the stomach and occasionally peritonitis, the result of suppuration 

 and ruptui'e. The bot of the warble fly Gastrophilus equi is met with and so is 

 a trematode, which I think is identical with Gastrodiscus Sonsinoi. There seems to 

 be an idea prevalent that the so-called " star sickness " of horses, so named in 

 reference to the astronomical conditions obtaining at the time of year it occurs, 

 is dependent on parasitic infection. Lieut.-Colonel Griffith, however, assures 

 me that it is the same as the South Aii'ican fonn of horse sickness known as 

 " big head," and he has sent the museum a typical specimen of a stomach from 

 such a case. Texas fever probably occurs in a latent form amongst Sudanese 

 cattle. 



^ For information regarding the drugs employed by the natives, see a paper on the subject in the 

 Journal of Tropical Medicine, April 15th, 1904 



