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remarked with reference to the management of the 

 camel, know infinitely more about his complaints and 

 their remedies than we do. 



The following are some of the ordinary complaints, 

 viz. : 



1. Galls, saddle. 



(a) crupper. 



(b) tail. 



(c) head. 



2. Eating away of nose. 



3. Blood-poisoning. 



4. Blotches. 



5. Deep tumours. 



6. Cold (catarrh), 

 (a) Rheumatism. 



7. Sore throat. 



8. Pneumonia. 



9. Cold struck. 



10. Heat struck. 



11. Taplarga 



12. Colic. 



13. Itch. 



14. Mange. 



15. Diarrhoea. 



16. Dysentery. 



17. Debility. 



18. Exhaustion. 



19. Guffa. 



20. Swelling and inflamma- 



tion of the feet. 

 (a) Sore feet. 



21. Wearing away of the 



soles of the feet. 



22. Zaha,rbahad. 



23. Rupture and disjointing 



of hips. 



24. Dislocation of the 



shoulder. 



It goes without saying that galls are more numerous 

 than anything, especially amongst baggagers, and I tried 

 to point out in chapter vii. that this was one of the 

 evils of bad loading and inattention generally to the 

 fitting and girthing of saddles ; but there are other 

 causes as well, which we will now discuss. 



1. Saddle galls are commoner and of a more serious Saddle 

 nature than other galls, for in the first place they give 

 greater pain, and in the second they frequently end 

 in loss of health and condition when, as I have seen, 

 camels, heavily and badly weighted, are marched day 

 after day long distances and abnormally long hours 

 without proper medical treatment of any kind, but with 



