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myra leaf pattern is called hajuria dagh, it is best for an abscess 

 of the chest, but if the abscess occurs between the hiud legs the 

 cart-wheel braiul fchoufnlli (h\<jh) is required. It is quite unneces- 

 sary to dwell further on this matter, for the elfect of the iron is 

 tho same whatever form it is made to design during application. 

 The use of setons, blisters, bandages, fomentations, cold water 

 applications, and other valuable methods of treatment of diseases 

 of lower animals seem to have been introduced into Camelino 

 Thera])Outics by Gilchrist, who also insists on the value in treat- 

 ment of alteratives and the depletory method. Thus, his recipes 

 comprise calomel, tartar emetic, and aloes in ordinary or very 

 lax'ge doses and bleeding (with physic) is insisted on for all forms 

 of internal inflammation. Bleeding is to be performed to tho 

 extent -of 4 to 3| or 4 gallons. This operation can be accomplished 

 with facility, as the neck is long and its jugular capacious (being 

 between 2 inches and 2\ inches in diameter) and very superficially 

 placed. The animal is made to sit down and tho knees tied in 

 the bent position each by several turns of a rope round the flexed 

 limb binding the metacarpus against the fore arm ; the rope 

 passes twice over the neck and is then tied, whereby the animal 

 is prevented rising. A cord is then tied round the neck at tho 

 inferior part of the superior third, moderately tight, the jugular 

 tills speedily '''at the site most eligiblo for incision and is opened 

 by means of a common horse fleam, used in the same manner as 

 for bleeding a horse. A gallon and-a-half of blood is a full 

 bleeding, and in inflammatory cases the quantity should, in the 

 first instance, be abstracted ; afterwards a gallon, or only half, 

 may be drawn off according to the urgency of the individual case." 

 It was found that a healthy camel lived a few hours after 90 lbs. 

 of blood had been, experimentally, abstracted from the jugular. 

 Leach describes local hieeding from a hranch of the facial vein, 

 as follows : — Two men hold the head down and rub the back of 

 the neck with a stick, which causes the blood to circulate freely 

 and a vein just above the nostrils to stand out. This should be 

 lanced. The blood is first of a dark colour, but changes to 

 bright red when a seer or so has been taken. The bleeding 

 should now be stopped by placing a wet rag folded so as to form 

 a kind of pad over the incision. SlUfing the ear is a primitive 

 method of venesection adopted in emergency, and the superficial 



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