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invi'stigjitioii. Tlio coininon method of soakiii<4- gram iu tho 

 chursah for catnch, seems to answer well and is better for service, 

 but boiled cooltlioe is a valuable article of diet for a sick camel. 



The common nu'tlioJ in this Presidency of Serwans and tlioir 

 families living iusmiill tents among their animals is not apparently 

 deleterious to the camels, whether or no it is so to the men I can- 

 not say. It does not, appreciably, secure for the animals that cai-e 

 and attention from tho men in charge of them which it ouerht. 

 These individuals are apt to think that when a little fodder is 

 constantly kept before their camels they are well tended and are 

 under the impression that removal of the pulan (saddle) and 

 proper grooming are quite unnecessary. There were a number 

 of the camels in very poor condition and much rubbed (although 

 not actually galled) by the saddle ; consequently they looked 

 better when saddled than stripped and the Serwans objected 

 very much to daily inspection of the animals bare-backed. 



Some of tho camels were much tormented with lice and other 

 forms, of Ectozoa, and thus required the more careful attention 

 to grooming. Again, there is certainly much difficult}'^ in keeping 

 the hind legs and tail of a camel clean, especially when he is 

 "must," one of the symptoms of which condition is irritability 

 and frequent passage of urine which is generally expelled on 

 to the tail. The oi\gan thus dampened is flapped about, besprink- 

 ling the hind legs with urine and seriously retarding the healing 

 of wounds. We had several cases of long-standing ulcer under 

 treatment. 1 found that when kept clean and dressed with 01. 

 Acidi Carbol : (1-8) these did remarkably well, whether as a 

 result of inherent tendency to cicatrization with great rapidity, 

 or to the fact that now, for the first time in my experience I was 

 using jingili oil as a vehicle, I cannot say. But it was very 

 evident to me that the enormous ulcers cicatrized much more 

 rapidly than in wounds of tho horse of the same kind. Within 

 a few days of the commencement of this dressing, extensive 

 irregular granulating surfaces became covered with new skin. 

 I mention this fact because either it draws attention to the value 

 of jingili oil in animal surgery or it disposes of the idea, hitherto 

 held, that there is something in the constitution of the camel 



