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SO terrible a wound that I never expected the 

 horse to recover, as the knee swelled to three 

 times its natural size. I recommended hot 

 bran poulticing for several days, and repeated 

 fomentations of murgosa and other leaves, much 

 used for that purpose in cavalry regiments, 

 whereby the inflammation was allayed ; then 

 leeches, a simple dressing, and cold aj^plications 

 completed the cure, and the horse in course of 

 a month was fit for duty, to the great enhance- 

 ment of my reputation as a skilful veterinarian. 

 Indeed, if I could have responded as successfully 

 to those who applied to me for medicines to re- 

 pair exhausted nature and renovate the powers 

 impaired by early debauch, I might have accu- 

 mulated a handsome sum during my stay at the 

 court of Meer Ali Moorad, for a2:)2Dlications, in 

 the belief that I was a medical man, were of 

 daily occurrence. I found it, too, somewhat 

 difficult to persuade such applicants that I 

 could be of no service to them, as, having cured 

 two or three persons of fever which had resisted 

 all remedies previous to my administration of 

 quinine, and that proving successful, it was 

 looked on as a panacea for all diseases. More or 

 less prejudice has been found to prevail in Sindli 



