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CHAPTER XIII 



ON THE EIGHT FORMS OF COLIC » (KURKURI) AND THEIK 



TREATMENT 



There are eight forms of this serious disease, and these should be 

 carefully distinguished from each other. 



Should a horse continually stretch itself and strain as though 

 about to stale, it is suffering from retention of the urine {peshdh- 

 hand, adj.). Remedy: insert a red chilli in its urethra {nd,iza) to 

 make it stale at once ; but first of all tie a horse-hair to the chilli, 

 so that it can be removed from the urethra without delay. Item : 

 instead of the chilli use a wick soaked in nitre.^ 



Should the patient be a mare, insert in its vagina ^ a hatdsha •. * 

 or else leaves of the heri^ well chewed. Item : a piece of soap as 

 a suppository (shdfa) is also good. Item : pour a pint of sweet oil up 

 the nostrils. Item : place two or three live human lice in the 

 horse's ear, for this, too, is beneficial. Item : should any of the 

 above remedies fail, get Indian mustard seed {rd,i) ; pound it and 

 make it into a thick paste with water, and apply it to the outside of 

 the testicles. This should act instantaneously. Item : one remedy 

 I have omitted ; take two lotds ^ full of fair water, and stand by the 

 horse near its loins ; then cast the water on the ground and whistle 

 softly, to induce the horse to stretch and stale.'^ 



CosTiVENESS. — Should the horse be costive and unable to dung, 

 you should follow the method of salotrls. Get two tolas weight of 

 native tobacco prepared for smoking ^ and make the horse eat it by 



1 Kurkuri is properly spasmodic colic. 



2 Shora. Another method is : Take seven or eight horse-hairs and 

 twist tbem together ; double them and twist them again ; soak in nitre 

 and then use as a catheter. 



3 Farj. 



* Batdsha, a common bazar sweetmeat, white, and very light and 

 brittle. 



5 Beri, the Common Jujube, Zizyphus vulgaris. 



• A lofd (a brass or copper vessel) contains about two quarts. 



7 Cure by imagination or sympathy. The horse, seeing the wet 

 ground, thinks it has staled, and feels an inclination to repeat the 

 operation. Medical men state that children are sometimes unable to 

 retain their urine on hearing the sound of running water. 



^ Ouj-dkUf i.e., a mixture of tobacco and gur. 



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