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We have already noticed the different forms of inflammation 

 of the throat found in the camel, perhaps we may best here deal 

 with one of the mysteries of cameline pi^actice known as Kapaulee. 

 In all unusual cases the Serwan or Salootri informs us the animal is 

 suffering from '^Kapaulee/' even though he be showing the most 

 varied symptoms. Gilchrist considers the term is applied to in- 

 flammation of some part of the head, generally the soft parts of the 

 orbits^ and that if uncontrolled it will extend to the brain and cause 

 death, but if properly treated the inflammation may be confined 

 to the orbit and simply destroy its contents. It not uncommonly 

 appears to be an inflammation of the areolar tissue of the upper 

 part of the head which if uncontrolled speedily runs on to sloughy 

 suppuration. It usually shows itself when the animal has come 

 off the march and has drunk plentifully and, therefore, seems due 

 to suppressed perspiration. Tremors first occur, on the second day 

 the neck becomes stiff, and on the third day a hard and predomi- 

 nant tumour about the size of a small hen^s egg appears on the top 

 of the head, or if the eyelids and the eyeball be the seat of disease 

 these swell and there is much watery discharge, later the eyeball 

 is destroyed by sloughy ulceration and a foul ulcer results which 

 heals slowly. There is a discharge of unhealthy mucus from 

 the nose and this discharge is specially profuse when, as is some- 

 times the case, the tumour is in the nostrils. If the tumour is 

 protracted in appearance the case will probably prove fatal, 

 therefore treatment must be prompt. So much for Kapaulee as 

 seen by Gilchrist, Nunn saw it in Shahpur and termed it Catarrh 

 or Influenza. The symptoms he observed were drooping head, 

 off feed and cud, mucus coming from the nose, and hard swelling 

 in both ears. The natives gave aromatics and fired in circles 

 and round the roots of the ears. Cases of Kapaulee pointed out 

 to us as su.ch have been either ordinary cases of Catarrh in which 

 swelling of some part or other had been caused by the cautery or 

 obscure cases of internal disorder in which the animal had for 

 days until death occurred been sitting with neck upright watchful 

 of all that was going on but taking no notice of food and never 

 chewing the cud. We have not had any opportunity of making 

 joost-mortem examination in these cases and regret that we must 



