The fat taken out of the bunche [hump] and perfumed cureth the Hemmorhoids and the blood of the camell fryed is pretious against the bloody flix or any other loosenes of the belly.
-Edward Topsell, History of Four Footed Beasts, On Camels, 1607
Pity we had no bloody camel meat when the sulphurous wells of Kalabsha loosened our bowels. We could have been cured, and likewise Ahmad the Bawwāb, whom we called Abu Bawāsīr after that other malady down under, could have cured himself by the perfumed fat of a hump, perhaps by the very one I’d ridden for forty days that had nearly stricken me with Ahmad’s same complaint.