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CHAPTER XVI 



CANKER OP THE FOOTi (?) 



Canker in Feet. — If there is an unhealthy growth on the frog, 

 it is a sign of kaf-glrd, a very evil disease. The following is a 

 tested remedy : Take equal quantities of quick-lime and yellow 

 arsenic,- pound and mix ; sprinkle on canvas and bind on to the 

 diseased part. Continue the treatment till a healthy frog appears 

 from underneath. 



Sprain of Back Tendon.^ — If the back tendon of the fore-leg 

 fills, know that ''us ko pay dyl hai/' and that the horse is unfit for 

 work. Treatment : put two quarts of water in an earthen-pot 

 (hdndl), and cast in ten of the large leaves of the bastard-teak,^ 

 and add 4 ozs. of hhdri-namak,^ and boil. When reduced to 

 half, remove, and place five leaves on each affected fore-leg ; over 

 the leaves,^ bind cloth, and tie again with mmij"^ rope. For three 

 hours continue to moisten the bandages with the water from the 

 pot and continue this treatment for several days. 



Theush, — Thrush^ is an offensive discharge from the frog. 

 Remedy : sprinkle for ten or twenty days a little crude sulphate of 

 soda ^ over the frog, to increase the secretion. Then to dry up the 

 discharge take equal quantities of quicklime and turmeric, and 

 pound them in a marble mortar,^" and^ *Pply dry. Two or three 

 days more of this treatment are sufficient to complete the cure. 



Catabeh.^^ — If your horse suffer from catarrh, take a piece of old 

 canvas or a piece of paper ; or, better still, a piece of blue cloth 

 dyed by indigo j^^ damp it ; roll it, and light one end. Then place 



1 Kafglrd. 



2 Hartal, Orpiment, Aureum pigmentum. 

 ^ Pay and or bhamd. 



* Dhdk, Bntea frondosa. 



5 Khdrl naviak, earth-salt. 



« Pan, m., vnlg. " leaf." 



7 Munj, the leaf -sheaths of Saccharum ciliare. 



^ Putll se ras dnd. 



^ Khdrl namak, earth-salt. 



^^ Kharal ; hd'van (or imdm) dasta is an iron mortar and pestle. 



11 Kandr or kandrd. Agar ghord kandrd jd,e. 



12 Sawars in native cavalry regiments generally put the smouldering 

 cloth in a nose-bag, and then put the nose-bag on the horse's head. 



