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FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



the unrolled end in the horse's nostril and make it inhale the 

 smoke ; this will relieve the discharge.^ Item : pound very fine 

 some bark of box-myrtle," and blow it from a tube into the nostrils 

 for three or four days. Item : take fourteen and a half told of the 

 same bark, boil in milk, dry, and then pound fine; add half the 

 quantity of table salt {Ldhorl namak), and one fourth the quantity 

 of saffron; mix and sift; blow about four grains^ up the nostrils 

 morning and evening and this will cure the foul discharge. Item : 

 take four told of ghi, melt it, and add the same quantity of good 

 honey ; add a small quantity of box-myrtle- and give the whole by 

 way of one nostril. Again take the same quantity and make the 

 horse drink it through the other nostril. Do this for three or four 

 days, and if the horse does not recover, try another remedy. This 

 is a receipt worth knowing, which I obtained from Pannil Khan. 



Prick in Shoeing. — Should a horse be pricked in shoeing, or 

 sliould a splinter* enter the frog, or a pebble injure it, and the 

 horse go lame from the injury, heat a brick and wrap it in several 

 layers of cloth, and place the injured hoof on it, and sprinkle water 

 on the brick. If steamed^ for two or three days the horse will 

 recover. By the Mughals this treatment is called sang-tdh.^ 

 Item : place the foot on hot dry wood ashes, and so treat for three 

 days in succession. 



Swollen Back. — For a swelling on the back, knead up clay 

 with water and apply it.^ Item : apply a poultice of ispaghfiP seeds. 

 Item : wash with hot water and soap. Item, : anoint freely with 

 mustard oil.^ Item : bathe the affected part with cold {" stale ") 

 water. Until a complete recovery takes place, the horse must not 

 be saddled.^^ 



1 Bent, any discharge from the nose. 



2 Kd,l phal, H., Mjrica Nagi. 

 ^ Two surJch or rati. 



* Khohrd, m., a cut stalk, a piece of stubble, a large splinter. 



^ Bhapdrd, "steaming "; from bhap, "steam." 



^ This is done for half an hour at a time, two or three times a day, 

 two or three bricks being used at each operation. 



7 This is perhaps left on for two or three days. 



^ Ispaghul, H., Plantago ovata. The seeds are swollen in water and 

 then applied. 



^ Karwd tel is oil either of sarson or of rd,i. 



10 Khoglr = chdr-jdma, the old native saddle, or stuffed felt used as a 

 saddle. 



