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Various Lapes or Ointments are constantly recommended, tliey 

 are either of the nature of poultices or of ointments proper. A very 

 short experience with medicines suffices to show that these native 

 prescriptions have absolutely no special advantages as compared 

 with the corresponding- preparations of the Veterinary Pharma- 

 copoeia, and they are usually so complex in composition as to be 

 difficult to remember on emergency. Their special recommen- 

 dation is that only bazaar medicines are required in their prepara- 

 tion, but the skilled pharmaceutist once informed what remedies 

 are procurable in ordinary bazaars in emergency can combine them 

 with efficiency greater than that of the unscientific recipes of the 

 Serwans. The native recipes which seem of special value will 

 be enumerated hereafter and it will be found that the value of 

 lengthened experience in management of camels under disease 

 has been neither under-estimated nor over-rated. 



Unjuns or Lachrymants seem in much favour with Serwans. 

 They are pastes, powders, or unguents applied to the eyelids on 

 the inner surface ; they, of course, irritate the animal much and 

 produce a profuse flow of tears but it is very doubtful whether they 

 are of any benefit whatsoever in the disorders for which tbey are 

 used, certainly they have no more than a slight derivative action. 

 They have long been discarded from all occidental practice except 

 for local treatment. 



Firing constitutes an important feature of treatment of animal 

 diseases by natives, who usually like to leave faiid their clients to 

 see) distinct evidences that remedial measures have been adopted. 

 In almost every case the unfortunate patient is extensively scored 

 with the hot iron and it is seldom we see a camel which has entire- 

 ly escaped this heroic measure, adopted either for cure or preven- 

 tion of disease. W^e are constantly urged to score with the hot 

 iron over the haunch and neck, on the head, along the sides and 

 around the navel, from the ears to the shoulders, on the buttocks, 

 and so on. Leach gives us some interesting details about the after 

 treatment in cases of application of the actual cautery. " Three days 

 after branding, a mixture of wood or cow-dung ashes and camel 

 urine should be applied daily for seven days, when it will be found 

 that the scab resulting from the firing has peeled off and that the 

 abscess, if it has not already burst of itself, is ready to be lanced." 

 Great virtue is attributed to the form of iron mark, thus the pal- 



