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being cough, quick and laboured breathing, and profuse rust- 

 colourod discharge from the nostrils. To these Gilchrist adds 

 as signs of Pieprah, Pupday, or Paj^esa ka murz considerable 

 distress, discharge from the eyes, and cold extremities and body 

 surface in the bronchitic Jorm ; still greater distress and disturb- 

 ance of breathing in the jrnemnonic form in which the heaving of 

 the Hanks is very marked. AVheu the pleura is involved the 

 symptoms arc obscure, but painful cough is present. A case of 

 pleuropneumonia was recorded in the Quarterly Journal of 

 Veterinary Science, Vol. III., p. 245, in which the animal died 

 immediately after doing a long march and advanced lung disease 

 was found. The pluck with which a camel keeps at his work 

 without giving way even though suffering* from most serious 

 disorder should, we submit, be rather to the credit of the camel 

 than, as it generally is, ]nit down to his general " cussedness and 

 contrariness of nature." Professor Lombardini records p/eiiro- 

 pericarditis as frequent in very young camels under two months 

 old. They first are off feed and sluggish in movement, they suck 

 little and half-heartedly, and lie with head turued towards the 

 belly and cry out when disturbed. Costiveness, injection of 

 visible membranes, and ui'ine red and scanty are also symptoms. 

 The respiration next becomes disturbed and the heart's beats 

 violent, auscultation and percussion at first give little result, later 

 we can determine loss of resonance of the thoracic cavitj', absence 

 of respiratory murnur in the lower part of the chest, and supple- 

 mentary respiration in the upper. Dyspnoea sets in and the symp- 

 toms increase in severity and end fatally. No cough is present, but 

 towards the later stages there may be a mucous discharge from 

 the nostrils. In addition to ordinary causesFogliata considersthat 

 there must be ])resent a blood derangement, he found peritoneal 

 lesions present in some cases and marked h3'dra3mia. Autopsy 

 also showed abundant serous ett'usion into the thorax and some 

 fibrin intermingled with it in suspension as fiakes and recent de- 

 posits (false membranes^ on the pariefal and visceral pleura and on 

 the pericardium and exocardium; lungs atalectic and sometimes 

 exhibiting the lesions of caseous pneumonia. Animals uj) to two 

 years of age may be affected by this disorder which seems little 



