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(e) Mooroos is sore feetj overworn sole, due to too long marches, 

 especially from travelling- along bad roads. This is the condi- 

 tion that Tassy describes as a kind of founder and which Hodgson 

 long ago I'ecorded as treated by rest and putting the feet in 

 wet clay. Some of the chobes recommended for elephants, or 

 plain tar dressing, should prove useful here. Byrne considers 

 El Mooroos as sandcrack, i.e. fissure of the sole extending from 

 front to rear. Caused by long marches over stony ground, or 

 by continued contact with dung or irritant mud. Kemove from 

 such ground, rest, and keep the parts clean. 



{fj Pedal fibroma seems rather frequent in the camel and 

 may attain a large size without causing lameness and apparently 

 without proving fatal. This condition does not seem amenable 

 to treatment although we have no evidence of malignancy in it. 

 Early operative removal must be tried, otherwise as in a case 

 recorded in the Q. J. V. Sc. in I., Vol. III., p. 246, traumatic 

 Ij^mphangitis is apt to result from the surface of the tumour crack- 

 ing or becoming injured and the ulcers irritated in various ways. 



Appendix L— NOTES ON CAMEL CORPS. 



A recent War Office publication, by Major D. B. Burn, 18th 

 Hussars, (Intelligence Branch, War Office), deals in an interesting 

 manner with the subject of use of camels in war forpurposes other 

 than Transport of baggage and supplies. An epitome of the opi- 

 nions expressed and the information given on this most important 

 matter will doubtless prove of interest to our readers. From 

 very ancient times camels have been used in warfare by com- 

 batants, and actually at one time were brought to the front to 

 take part in the fig'ht, their riders being' armed with bows and 

 arrows to greet the enemy from a distance, and with 6 or 7 feet 

 long swords to enable them to reach a foot soldier on the ground. 

 Antiochus the Great, we are informed, used such soldiers against 

 the Romans in the battle of Magueria (190 B.C.); Cyrus gained 

 his great victory over Croesus through the cavalry of the latter, 

 taking to flight at sight of came! -archers of the former. Thebes, 

 in 420 A.D., was garrisoned by a Camel Corps, which rendered 

 distinguished service in the time of the Emperor Diocletian. 



