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qncnt aud severe in the caiuol especially duriug the exigencies of 

 active service. Even iu private camels constant care is needed 

 to guard against these very fatal conditions, changes of weather 

 or diet, exposure when heated, a severe day's work, leaving the 

 animal without a covering on a cold night, in fact almost any 

 chill or change, may bring on an attack of diarrhoea. Tassy 

 speaks of purging on service from eating acrid plants especially 

 one described as Bonnafao var. Alpha. Gilchrist alludes to tho 

 disease as arising " spontaneously during rainy and cold weather 

 or the result at the commencement of the rainy season of the 

 animal eating of the young and tender growth of the plant called 

 Kaatamoal, of which the animal is very fond and which at a 

 greater age is a very nuti-itious diet." The plant is also called 

 Junglee Erundee or Wild Castor Plant. Feeding on gram only, 

 or on too much grain, have been found to produce this disorder, 

 as also have irritants of any kind in the bowels, such as coarse 

 indigestible fodder ; neglect and hard work, cold, and continuous 

 non-supply of green fodder are active factors in the production of 

 dysentery on service. Young camels suffer most, and, as Nunn has 

 shown, it causes great fatality among them in the Punjab where 

 it is known as Rik and treated by giving rice and bhang with 

 the milk of a drying-np cow. It is not unfrequently associated 

 with liver disorder. Both diarrhoea and dysentery prove very 

 fatal by exhausting the patient, generally a severe case of skin 

 disease results in fatal diarrhoea. I have recorded, in the Quarterly 

 Journal of Veterinary Science in India, Vol. II., p. 136, a case of 

 fatal diarrhoea in which the lining membrane of certain parts of 

 the alimentary canal was studded with round nodules either the 

 results of tubercular deposit or of parasites, and I have on record 

 a case of fatal diarrhoea due to the presence of whip-worm 

 (Trichocephalus Cameli) in the intestine. This latter case is the 

 more important to remember because Gilchrist did not succeed 

 in finding parasitea in the alimentary canal of the camel. 



Symptoms ; the ffecal evacuations vary in liquidity and colour, 

 and they generally smell most offensive; the skin dry and coat 

 staring, the eyes look dull and heavy, the urine is scanty and 

 high coloured, the patient dull or showing slight signs of abdo- 

 minal pain, some flatulence may be pi-esent, appetite is capricious, 

 and the patient falls awav in flesh very rapidly- Simple purging 







