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raay be added disinfection of localities, attendants, and affected 

 animals ; whenever possible removal of tbe camels still unaffected 

 to a fresh locality where there is good range and plenty of fodder, 

 and it must be remembered that this disease affects other animals 

 also and is communicable to them especially by carcases and 

 inoculation. Every care should, therefore, be taken in avoidance 

 of places where post mortem examination or burial of anthrax 

 carcases has occurred, and in making a post mortem examination 

 the operators should adopt every precaution against their being 

 inoculated. It is said that during the Horse Plague in Egypt 

 in 1876 many camels died from anthrax and it is not at all 

 improbable that camels and other transport animals have in many 

 cases acted as unsuspected sources of anthrax conveyance to 

 troop horses. Even under present arrangements it is wonderful 

 how long even extensive fatality may be going on in the transport 

 lines of a station, especially among camels, before the Veterinary 

 Surgeon of the British troops at that station receives any notifi- 

 cation of it ; things were, however, much worse before the trans- 

 port was made a separate branch of the Commissariat. 



Post mortem Examination shows, generally, amber-coloured 

 fluid in the serous cavities, especially the peritoneal sac, blood 

 extravasations either as petechiae of serous membranes, or masses 

 of coagulated blood in the substance of parenchymatous organs. 

 Emphysematous diffused patches of sero-sanguinous fluid may 

 be found in various parts of the body, and gelatinous deposits 

 at the sublumbar region and replacing the fat around the heart. 

 In some cases there are no appreciable abnormalities and the 

 appearance of the blood differs little (if at all; from its normal 

 purple colour. 



It is not unfrequent for outbreaks of a very fatal but obscure 

 nature to occur among camels especially on service. One of 

 these has been recorded by Veterinary Surgeon Haslam in the 

 December 1885 number of the Veterinary Journal, and its facts 

 are well worthy of notice. It seems there was a certain amount 

 of doubt as to whether the animals did not succumb to poisoning, 

 anthrax, or sunstroke, but the conclusion arrived at that " It is 

 a fact that ad libitum watering immediately after a large meal in 

 this climate will cause enteritis, peritonitis, and death in other- 

 wise healthy camels" must be considered as not proven. V. S. 



