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salt-petre ; ^ pound and mix and blow into the eye by means of a 

 tube. Item : substitute for the latter old pounded brick. 



BoGHMA (Enteritis ?). — Should your horse burst into a profuse 

 dripping sweat, it is struck by bogbma and there is little chance of 

 its life. There is but one remedy : get a large quantity of wood- 

 ashes and rub well all over its body till dry. Should the sweats 

 cease and the horse become dry, it will recover ; but if the sweats 

 do not cease, wash your hands of its life. At any rate make two 

 round branding marks {gul) of equal size at the roots of the ear on 

 the inside, and also brand a gul on the end of the dock : possibly 

 the horse may recover. No other cure is known but this. Should 

 the horse recover, give it no grain for forty days. If the horse 

 recover, a second attack need not be feared for the remainder of 

 its life. 



Sprain.^ — Should any sinew of a horse be sprained, take equal 

 parts of earth from a snake's hole, human urine, and sheep's dung; 

 mix the two first ingredients and then add the third, making the 

 whole into a thin paste, and then boil over a brisk fire. Get a 

 stick, bind a rag on the end, and with it apply a coating of the 

 warm mixture to the injured part, standing the horse out in the 

 sun. Do this for several days.^ Item : rub in, a liniment made of 

 oil,* opium, and geru, and afterwards foment ^ well. 



NoN-coNTAGious Mange AND Prickly Hbat.^ — Should your horse 

 get mange, do not delay in applying a remedy, for the disease is 

 troublesome. Wash the horse well for several days with water 



In native schools it is ground and mixed with water and used for 

 writing on black wooden slabs, the substitute for slates. Faqirs and 

 jogis dye their clothes with it. 



1 Qalami shord, refined salt-petre crystallized in long prisms. 



* Paftd hharak-jdnd. 



3 This is applied for about two hours a day till a coat about a 

 finger's breadth in thickness is obtained, the previous day's coat having 

 been first removed. This treatment is by dealers called chhop kamd. 



* Til oil is generally used. 



» Senknd is to foment, or to heat with hot hands, heated cloths, 

 cotton, or a heated stone ; or to toast before the fire ; or to foment with 

 hot water. Dealers generally " foment " with heated cow-dung. 



* Khdrisht or khdrish, lit. " itching," a name g^ven to mange and 

 also to prickly heat. Ghul is the Hindi name for khdrisht. The Zinat* 

 H-Khayl, however, makes a difference between the two, the latter being 

 apparently restricted to " prickly heat." 



