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indefinite and irregular periods in twenty-fonr liours^ each fit 

 lasts from four to eight minutes^ and when it is completed the 

 animal rises and commences feeding as though nothing had 

 happened. Gilchrist goes on to say that always a morbid san- 

 guineous fluid is found in the spinal canal on iiost-mortem 

 examination, and the disease is considered uniformly fatal, 

 though the natives give stimulant mussauls and errhines. He 

 advises us to bleed with a view to protracting recurrence and 

 lessening the number of the fits, to fire the head or blister the 

 neck, to pui'ge with aloes and give alterative doses of Sulphide 

 of Antimony (§ss) with Calomel (5ss) for a week and then follow 

 them up with tonic mussauls. As a preventive the camels should 

 be kept in a shed and sheltered. 



A very similar aifection is spasm of the neck described by 

 Gilchrist as Cumaun I- a murz. The animal is suddenly attached 

 with convulsions, its neck gets twisted, its limbs and lips quiver, 

 and it grinds its teeth. This occurs in cold weather, and the 

 usual firing along the back of the neck, and if fits persist, bleed- 

 ing, purging, alteratives, and tonics are recommended j recovery 

 is slow. 



The condition well known in India as "cold struck^' is des- 

 cribed by Queriple as a form of megrims. The animal suddenly 

 falls, with conjunctivas injected, pupils dilated, pulse slow and 

 bounding. These symptoms are followed by apparently com- 

 plete recovery, but shortly afterwards fits set in, recurring at 

 intervals of ten minutes to half an hour, and duriug them the 

 patient is apparently quite mad for about five minutes ; some- 

 times recovery takes place. 



Oerehritis or true inflammation of the encephalon is considered 

 to occur, but probably the majority of the cases recorded under 

 this heading ai^e merely congestive. The treatment recommend- 

 ed is to bleed the patient, tie his feet, lieap clothing over his 

 body, and gave him stimulants. 



Gilchrist describes that form of the Bhao ka murz, Dhudkay^ 

 or Ahren Bhao, which affects the brain as either cephalitis or 

 apoplexy. The inflammatory form is Ahren Bhao, similar to 

 the disease of that name which affects horses, and is denoted by 



