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the dung into balls of itself; and then the fol- 

 lowing ball or drench, given every other morning, 

 when gradually brought on again to dry grain and 

 dry grass, will help to keep it so. Ball : 1^ dr. 

 gentian, quassia, or chrecate, ^ dr. catechu, ^ dr. 

 ginger, tV dr. bhang, iV dr. opium. Drench : 

 this, mixed in half a pint of beer, or in one 

 wine-glass of brandy, and three of hot water. 

 These relaxed constitutioned horses should, every 

 other evening, have their grain boiled, and not 

 be fed wholly on gram. 



A pill, the size of a pea, is often given by na- 

 tives in cases of fatigue, or in gripes. The pill is 

 thus concocted, but it requires a native to make 

 it, who has been taught how to prepare it, and 

 then it will keep for years : — Six drachms of solid 

 arsenic, and six quarts of onion or moolee juice 

 are put in a pot, and placed on the fire for eight 

 hours, till all the juice is absorbed. About one 

 drachm of the arsenic is lost in the residue, and 

 the remainder is made into sixty pills ; each pill, 

 therefore, contains about ^\e grains of arsenic. 



The following is also given by them when a 

 horse is fatigued, and necessitated to continue his 

 journey on the following morning : — -h dr. opium ; 

 1 dr. bhang ; 1 dr. alum ; 2 drs. googul ; 4 drs. 

 turmeric ; 4 drs. ghoon, made into a ball with 

 bajree flour. 



