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ADDITIONAL NOTES 
Trcalmcnt of 
dysentery 
Treatment of 
headache 
The disease 
called 
" Dabas” 
2. Black tea should be boiled and half sugared. Then it should he placed in an open 
vase and kept in the open all night. The patient should drink of this for seven days. Cure 
may take place in a shorter period. 
Dysenteky 
1. (Irind ^ rotl of wheat and ^ rotl of helba, and boil them with 2 rotls of cow’s milk. 
The mixture is to he taken warm after 1 ounce of butter and 1 ounce of sugar have been 
added to it. The patient should then be heavily covered until he perspires freely. If 
necessary the treatment can he repeated. 
2. Mix the flour of white dura with sour milk and make a dough of it (using no 
water). Eat this in the morning, adding some cream from the sour milk and some sugar. 
Continue treatment for three days. Avoid drinking cold water and eating meat. 
3. Eating the liver of camels dipped in citron and salt is highly esteemed. 
Boiling Blood 
The term used to denote plethora 
Tredfmeut — 
1. Boil in three separate vases each of the following medicines; “Kurkum” 
(Saffron), “ Kurunful ” and Oud ora Ahiad. When they have been well boiled 
drink a cup of each. The result is free purgation. 
2. An infusion made from the hark of the Sunt tree may he drunk, used also tor 
rubbing the body. 
3. “ Karkade ” is also employed, taken with sugar like tea. 
He.yd.yche 
If the headache is felt with some lightness in the head and humming, it means some 
irregularity in the head and body, and in this case goat butter should he snuffed, the head 
rubbed with it, and some sugar taken with water. 
If the headache is caused by the sun or is due to influenza, the “ Kab ” salt (from a 
place in Dongola Province) should he melted in red vinegar, and placed on the head after 
shaving the hair. 
If this salt is not procurable, ordinary salt may be used. 
The following is given in the words of the Hakim. It is impossible to recognise the 
illness he describes : — 
“ D.iliAS ” 
This illness is a sort of influenza which prevails in the Sudan, and very few escape 
from it. If the attack is serious, the sight or teeth are usually lost. It occurs sometimes 
during the winter, hut oftener in summer time. 
Headache and swelling of the skin are among its general symptoms, and bleeding or 
purgatives produce no benefit because the illness is caused liythe uncleanness of the blood 
inside the arteries and not the exterior blood of the skin, wdiich could he taken oft by 
means of cupping. It often causes swelling in the lijis, throat and face. 
The liest remedy is to snuff the fat of the fox and rub the skin with it. Another good 
remedy is the hark of tlie “ Arak ” tree [Sulvutloi'd pfisicu, Garcin), which, after being 
