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tion of the disease from wliich wo learn that the serous aud 

 mucous membranes of the licad, hings, aud bowels are the scats 

 of the affection, the luugs and air passages being, also, most com- 

 monly disordered. The symptoms observed are those of apo- 

 plexy, the animal has a wild look aud becomes delirious then falls, 

 breathes stortorously, and dies. Sometimes at the commence- 

 ment of the attack there is lethargy and confused demeanour the 

 patient walks round and round its picket aud attempts to lie down 

 without doing so until the lethargy becoiues great, then he falls 

 heavily, breathes stertorously, and. dies from pressure on the brain. 

 Sometimes the nostrils are aifected there being mucopurulent 

 discharge and the animal frequently rubbing the nose against 

 the ground or some neighbouring object and being restless and 

 uneasy and uttering a guttural sound. In other forms the throat, 

 uvula, and lungs are aifected. When the bowels are the main 

 seat of disorder there is purging, the evacuations being foetid, 

 slimy, often bloody. The belly is SAvollen and rumbles freely 

 Tongue pale and dry. Animal is off feed and restless. Autopsy 

 shows one or all of the following lesions, effusiou on the brain, 

 pneumonia, congestion of the brain or lungs, and inflammation 

 and thickening of the bowels. Gilchrist completes his notice of 

 this important disorder by recommending in the way of treatment 

 prompt bleeding, sedulous fomentations of the body, good nurs- 

 ing, and purgation (if the bowels are the principal seat of the 

 disorder), or common salt in four ounce doses. 



Camel Pox or Variola Cambli has been observed frequently 

 and seems to vary in severity much in different places. Hodgson 

 describes it, under the name Gheechuch, as a slight disorder from 

 which camels soon recover without treatment. A few cases of 

 confluent small pox were destroyed in Afghanistan, The disease 

 is known to the natives as Mata, and in one case, certainly, 

 proved communicable to man (Oliphant). Masson has shown 

 that children inoculated from affected camels show a more or less 

 general eruption which usually is malignant and occasionally 

 is mortal, the eruption being like that of cowpox in mankind ; 

 Agnelli states that the Arabs protect themselves from small pox 

 by camel pox inoculation. The disease seems to be frequent in 

 Algeria (Fleming). 



Glanders has not yet been recorded as affecting the camel. 



