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ing the latter, and the outer lip of the wound will overlap 

 the inner, an arrangement which will assist it in closing and 

 healing rapidly. 



If the operator be doubtful of the steadiness of his hand it 

 is a safe plan to wind a piece of cotton round the lancet, 

 leaving about a quarter of an inch from the point free. 



Kambi. 



Many people believe that the kind of paralysis called 

 kamri is often of a parasitic origin, and associated with worm 

 in the eye. I have never seen any decided evidence of this, 

 having only met with one instance in which a horse who had 

 worms, in his case in both eyes, was also paralyzed. 



It is, however, quite conceivable that the ova of these 

 parasites might be carried along the bloodvessels into the 

 brain or spinal cord and there hatched, when the irritation 

 would cause paralysis. 



Kamri is certainly most common in districts which are 

 swampy or subjected to inundations during the rainy season, 

 and this fact increases the probability of its parasitic origin. 

 I read an account by one veterinary surgeon, whose name I 

 cannot now remember, in which he asserted that he had 

 actually found filaria in the brain. 



The word ' kamri ' merely means 'belonging to the loins.' 

 In some parts of India it is called a stroke of the wind, from 

 the belief that it is caused either by a chill or by something 

 injurious in the wind when coming from one particular direc- 

 tion. 



Mr. Hallen, Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon of the Bombay 

 Army, has stated that in one instance he stopped its recurrence 

 in a native cavalry regiment, where it had been prevalent, 

 by building a waU high enough to shelter the horses from 

 wind. 



The disease was very common amongst the Government 

 brood mares at Buxar, where one of the late Bengal studs 

 was situated, when I was in veterinary charge of it ten years 

 ago. The country all round was inundated to a considerable 

 extent during the months of July and August, the land 



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