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(3). It probably materially assists other influencos in koepiiifi: 



male animals poor and weak. 

 {'I}. It certainly makes surgical cases much more serious than 



they otherwise would be. 

 (5). Judging from the effects of this process on oxen and 

 horses, castrated animals would bo decidedly more 

 useful for ai*my purposes than uncut males and perhaps, 

 if the operation Avere pcrfdrniod when the animals are 

 young, their frames would become larger and they 

 would be adapted to more work on less food. 

 (G). Camels for trade purposes are often castrated, as especially 



in Mongolia. 



(7). There is every reason to believe that, owing to the position 



of the testicles, the operation could be performed with 



facility and without danger, and by ordinary salootris. 



(8). Castration of males least suited as sires, would check 



indiscriminate breeding. 

 One camel Avas treated for obscure lung disorder, another for 

 punctured and cracked foot-pad, and both were doing well. 

 As out-patients in this section of the Hospital, we had cases of 

 each of the following disorders : — Suppurating tumour of the 

 elbow pad (1), of the rahafay or breast pad (1), sinuous ulcer of 

 the temporal fossa (1 ), abscess in the cheek (1), gall of the thorax 

 from inturned point of the elbow (1), chronic disorder of the 

 eye with complete disorganization (1), ragged ulcerated tumour 

 of the foot with thicking of its fibrous tissues (several chronic 

 cases most unsightly but kept at work). A number of head 

 collar galls and nose rope lacerations also came under my notice. 

 I might have treated a number of these animals for general 

 debility, but they were required for work and so were allowed 

 to go on the least exacting duties. During the march from 

 Secunderabad a number of camels suffered from diarrhoea and 

 two, after prolonged treatment succumbed to exhaustion, and 

 there were no facilities for post-mortem examination. A third 

 died, probably from an altogether different cause, and I had an 

 opportunity of opening his body. His diarrhoea had been much 

 better for some days and the bowels showed no signs of disease 



