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CHAPTER XVI 



CANKER OF THE FOOT > (?) 



Canker in Feet. — If there is an unhealthy growth on the frog, 

 it is a sign of haf-glrd, a very evil disease. The following is a 

 tested remedy : Take equal quantities of quick-lime and yellow 

 arsenic/ pound and mix ; sprinkle on canvas and bind on to the 

 diseased part. Continue the treatment till a healthy frog appears 

 from underneath. 



Sprain of Back Tendon.-' — If the back tendon of the fore-leg 

 fills, know that '' us ko pay dyl hai," and that the horse is unfit for 

 work. Treatment : put two quarts of water in an earthen-pot 

 {hdndl), and cast in ten of the large leaves of the bastard-teak,"^ 

 and add 4 ozs. of hhdrl-namah,^ and boil. When reduced to 

 half, remove, and place five leaves on each affected fore-leg ; over 

 the leaves,^ bind cloth, and tie again with mfmj"^ rope. For three 

 hours continue to moisten the bandages with the water from the 

 pot and continue this treatment for several days. 



Thrush. — Thrush^ is an offensive discharge from the frog. 

 Remedy : sprinkle for ten or twenty days a little crude sulphate of 

 soda ^ over the frog, to increase the secretion. Then to dry up the 

 discharge take equal quantities of quicklime and turmeric, and 

 pound them in a marble mortar,^" and apply dry. Two or thi'ee 

 days more of this treatment are sufficient to complete the cure. 



Catarrh.^^ — If your horse suffer from catarrh, take a piece of old 

 canvas or a piece of paper ; or, better still, a piece of blue cloth 

 dyed by indigo ;i- damp it ; roll it, and light one end. Then place 



1 Kafglrci. 



2 Hartal, Orpiment, Aiireum pigmentum. 

 ^ Pay and or bharnd. 



* DhdJc, Butea frondosa. 



5 Khdrl naynak, earth-salt. 



^ Pan, m., vulg. '* leaf." 



7 Mu7ij, the leaf-sheaths of Saccharwm ciliare. 



^ Putll se ras and. 



^ Khdrl namak, earth-salt. 



^^ Kharal ; hdiuan (or imdm) dasta is an iron mortar and pestle. 



11 Kandr or kandrd. Agar ghord kandrd jd,e. 



12 Sawars in native cavalry regiments generally put the smouldering 

 cloth in a nose-bag, and then put the nose-bag on the horse's head. 



