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boil them Avitli five seers of sweet oil for a short time, throw 

 away the nuts, but add the oil to the powdered drugs, mix 

 and rub over the body of the animal. 



The recipes from which the above are taken were gravely 

 republished, for the information and guidance of the British 

 troops in Egypt, in 1885 ; there can be no hesitation whatever 

 in stating that the majority of them are impracticable, a consider- 

 able number are incomprehensible, a large proportion of the 

 ingredients are unattainable especially of service (a matter of 

 small moment as they probably were inserted for the benefit 

 of the serwans not of the sick camels). In fact, these recipes are 

 a mediieval barbarism like those given in GervaisMarkham's Way 

 to get Wealth or other quartos of the time of Charles 11. The 

 sooner it is recognised that the camel is not radically different 

 in Anatomy and Physiology from the horse and the ox, that 

 tonics for them are tonics for him, and that even their doses are 

 tolerably safe for use with sick camels, the better. The Serwan 

 in treating sick camels knew nothing of the use of surgical 

 means, nor of the action of agents on the system ; he relied 

 on the teachings of his fathers, and fatalities were put down to 

 disease, not to his attempts to cure them. For some time it has 

 been fully recognised that surgical means as adopted for other 

 animals are suited for the camel, henceforth let the same be 

 admitted as regards medicinal treatment ; and rescMrch be directed 

 to determination of doses and special features of the action of 

 particular drugs. 



IV. — The following recipes ibr&samphs of ivliat seccraJ v:riters 

 on camel diseases Jiave recommended. They are a little less unsatis- 

 factory in many cases than those given by Gilchrist as recom- 

 mended by the head Serwans of Hoonsoor. 



1. Phit'jaya (Leach). or Take of garlic 4-0 tolas. 



Take of Babul bark, chop- Bazbarang, mehti, and kali- 



ped small, 10 lbs. ; add giir, ! . . i on ^ i u 



„ _, - 1 1 1 M • ' ^ii'i of each 10 tolas; salt 



O lbs. and thoroughly l)oii m 



water 20 lbs. Give half this | ^^ tolas. Mix and give 4o 

 amount morning and evening | tolas at a time every third 

 for 15 days. ' day. 



