26 FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



Dark Urine. — Should your horse void bloody urine, it is a 

 matter of congratulation and calls for no treatment at the time, 

 even though you know a hundred remedies. If the urine is thin, 

 the cause is due to heat of temperament ; if thick, to the pre- 

 valence of damp and moisture [hddi). If the urine is bloody, it is 

 a sign that the horse has voided effete matter that is the cause of 

 disease. Five days later, however, if the dark urine is thin, give 

 the following : Take one told of hhand hurd ^ and double that 

 quantity of fine wheaten flour ; mix with the drinking water till 

 recovery. If, however, the urine is thick : Take five tolds of 

 pepper-corns and half that amount of sugar-candy ; ^ mix with a 

 little coarse wheaten flour, and give just before watering. Con- 

 tinue till recovery. 



Injury to the Eye. — Should the eye be injured by a blow, 

 there is danger of its becoming white and opaque.^ Chew a little 

 salt,* fill the mouth with water drawn yesterday,^ and blow the cold 

 salt water into the eye of the horse. Should the cornea have 

 already become white and opaque, lose no time in trying the 

 following : Blow from a tube a little red-oxide of lead ^ into the 

 eye daily. Item : substitute for the red-oxide of lead a little white 

 moist sugar'' pounded fine. Item: grind the kernel of the soap- 

 nut,^ and apply to the eye with a feather. Item : take the foeces 

 of a sucking infant and apply raw with a feather. Item : take a 

 quantity of good geru^ and mix with thre& times as much refined 



1 Khdnd hura, brown sugar partially refined. A common native 

 remedy is to give from 4 to 6 ozs. of the leaves of the Sissoo tree 

 (Dalbergia Sissoo: vem. shlsham). In place of this, a decoction is 

 occasionally given, made by pouring water on to half a pound of leaves, 

 kneading well with the hands, and then drawing off the water and 

 sweetening with gur. 



2 Mtsri, for misri, sugar twice refined. 



3 PhulU or pliiill ; white opacity in the eye, the result of a blow. 

 * About twenty grains of salt to an ounce of water. 



^ Bdsi pdni, " stale water," as opposed to water freshly drawn from 

 a well and therefore not quite cold. 



^ Sendilr or sandhur, in Arabic usrunj, " minium." 



7 Chlni, white sugar, or once-refined sugar. 



^ Sapindus Mukorossi, the soap-nut tree, rlthd, H. The fruit contains 

 a principle named saponine. Usually the ground soap-nut kernel is 

 mixed with a little honey. 



^ Geril, a red earth from the lower hills of the Dera Gliazi Khan 

 district, and from elsewhere. It is used as a dye and a medicine. 



