[Veterinary medicine comment on camel medicine in Fan-mu tsuan yen-fang].
This short paragraph tries to identify the camel diseases compiled in the old chinese text according to modern veterinary terms. Due to the specific terminology of the camel treatise and its overall scarce symptomatology the diseases are difficult to evaluate. The majority of them obviously deal with acute infectious diseases which manifest themselves under such symptoms as high fever, depression, anorexia, cachexia, diarrhoea, general weakness, etc. But there are some diseases and ailments which can be interpreted in modern terms my means of the symptoms, descriptions and cures, e.g. mange, paradontosis and wry-neck syndrome.
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Institut für Palaeoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin Universität München.
D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus; D002681:China; D049691:History, Medieval; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000266:history*