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drawn the day before [i.e., very cold water) .^ Item : take foul 

 water that has been used in a hubble-bubble pipe and wash the 

 horse with that. Item : take some curds {dahl), churn well, and 

 add a heaped-up handful ^ of gun-powder. Apply and keep the 

 horse in the sun ; the mange should show signs of disappearing in 

 three days. It is also a good thing to rub on, afterwards,^ Indian 

 rape-oil. Item : rub on for two or three days old and foul 

 water procured from a tanning-yard. Item : get four told of soap, 

 and half that amount of salt ; pound, mix, and tie up in a cloth ; 

 rub this over the body and then wash with very cold water.* A 

 cure should be effected in a few days. This is Khwaja Ahmad's 

 receipt, and a good one it is. Item : get long-pepper,^ pound it 

 fine, and mix with unboiled oil j^ apply in the sun. Next clean by 

 rubbing on earth, afterwards washing with water. 



True or Contagious Mange.'' — In contagious mange the hair 

 comes off and the skin gets raw. Remedy : take of rice and neem ^ 

 leaves 1 lb. each, and boil together with water; cool; add 1 lb. 

 of sour curds {dahl), and mix by hand. Give this to the horse 

 for forty days, in place of a feed ; but do not water for two or three 

 hours after. (Given for the same period, this is an excellent 

 cure for harsdti.) 



To Promote a Growth of Hair. — If the hair does not grow, 

 strain water that rice has been boiled ^ in, and rub on that. If no 

 'pich ^ is available, the water in which rice has been washed ^° before 

 cooking, can be substituted, as it, too, is beneficial. This will 

 produce a luxuriant crop of hair. 



1 This is a treatment for " prickly heat." Vide also note 5, p. 26. 



2 Lap. The word mutthi = as much as can be contained in the 

 closed hand. Anjall is a double handful, i.e., as much as can be 

 contained in the hollowed hands side by side. 



^ Sarson, Sinapis Glauca. — Roxh. 



* The Zinat^ 'l-Khayl says the bag should, after washing, be applied 

 a second time. 



^ Pipal, Piper longum. 



^ Kachchd tel, i.e., not boiled nor clarified. 



7 Agan had. 



^ Nim, H., the neem, or Margosa Tree, Melia Azadirachta. 



^ Pich, "rice-water." 



^^ Ghdnwal kd dhowan. 



