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curious ; less filthy, complex, and more scientific metliods should 

 be resorted to in such cases. 



(3) Abscess in the groin : Eanduk (Leach and Gilchrist), 

 Gathar (Nunn) has been observed especially in the hot season 

 in animals of all ages. It generally results from injury and 

 probabl}^ also from ulceration and offensive accumulations in the 

 sheath. It seriously disables the patient, but is curable; Nunn 

 mentions the native treatment as application of the cautery and 

 drenching the patient with camel's milk and turmeric every 

 evening for a fortnight. Leach describes how the abscess is 

 allowed to ripen, then lanced and the pus removed, after which 

 the parts are washed with nim leaf infusion or camel's urine, and 

 then the complex ointment recently described is applied. The 

 disease, termed by the Arabs El magoub, is seen in the Sahara. 

 Byrne describes it as a tumour of the sheath and to be treated by 

 slitting up the sheath, pulling it back, and constantly applying 

 A'inegar and water.* 



(4) Abscess outside the thigh, anteriorly, (Godi, Gadik, or 

 Rusoli) is considered to be especially benefited by firing with 

 a circle surrounding a cross (Choufulli Dagh) and subsequent 

 treatment similar to that of the other forms (Leach). 



(5) Abscess over the eye giving rise to extensive infiltration 

 of pus into the upper eyelid is evidently a result of inflammation 

 of the temporal gland {quod vide). 



(G) Gomri or Kapali was mentioned long ago by Hodgson 

 as abscess of the necTc and treated by firing first and then opening. 

 Leach also writes of it as denoted by pain in depressing the 

 head, and states that the firing is performed in a single line three 

 inches long. We have elsewhere entered at length into the 

 question of the true nature of the disease kno-wn as " Kapaulee." 



(7) Gilchrist writes of subcutaneous abscesses which occur, 

 ihough rarely, several simultaneously and on any part of the 

 bodv and prove very troublesome. This condition he terms 

 Bale-ka-murz or Joluk-ka-gudday. If on the trunk these 

 abscesses are called Nurbale, if on the legs Mahdeebale and 



* Soft swelling preventing the animal from staling may result from 

 gall bv the bind girth (Byrne). 



