

PREFACE. 



When I brought out tbe companion work to this, on 



the Elephant, an ingenious critic rated me soundly because 



I had not detailed information on diseases of the mighty 



pachyderm comparable on even terras with our knowledge 



of the surgery and medicine of the horse, ox, and man. 



That critic will have lots of scope in scarifying me over 



this book, for Cameline Pathology is sadly in arrears and 



the English in India, the Russians in Central Asia, the 



French in Algeria, and the Arabs in North Africa and 



South-Western Asia are but slowly accumulating exact 



knowledge of diseases of the Camel. Had I chosen to 



bring pure theory to bear I might have posed as a grand 



promoter, indeed as the originator, of Cameline Pathology 



and have given a full and elaborate account for correction 



hereafter b}'" practical observers. Such has not been my 



object ; I have aimed at " holding a mirror up to nature," 



and have painted Cameline Pathology " with all its 



warts ;" for I believe that by making the utmost of what 



we d.o know, by systematic arrangement, and by scientific 



expression I best prepare the subject for future advances. 



It is no slight step forward when we learn our ignorance 



of a science ! 



J. H. S. 

 Bombay, 1890. 



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