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Splint. — If your horse throws out a splint,^ treat without delay 

 as follows: Take batasha sweets, with double their quantity of crude 

 opium, and knead together in the palm of the hand, and heat over 

 the fire on a potsherd ; bind on hot, and allow to remain till a cure 

 takes place. Item : powdered sugar-candy bound on the splint with 

 a cloth, is also good. Item : bind on the place a goat's kidney 

 roasted in hot ashes and sprinkled with salt. Item : take twigs of the 

 thohar- tree and roast them in hot wood-ashes, and rub some soap on 

 their outside, and bind on the place; remove after three days.^ The 

 splint will be removed, and the hair will remain untouched. Item: 

 take a camel's rib and heat it in the fire and " foment " the aflFected 

 part with it ; a cure will be effected in a few days. The objection 

 to this remedy is, that the hair will not grow again on the spot — 

 unless the heat applied is inconsiderable. Item : a clod of earth can 

 be substituted.^ However, both these remedies must be applied in 

 the early stage, when the splint is forming ; applied later they are 

 of no use at all. 



Ringbone. — Should ringbone ° make its appearance on the fore- 

 or the hind-feet, try hot fomentations as mentioned above, and hand- 

 rubbing. If this treatment does not make a cure, it will at least 

 prevent the ringbone increasing. 



To MAKE A Horse Full-bellied. — Should you wish to make a 

 gaunt-bellied horse full-bellied,^ brand it on the hollows of its 

 flanks with a Greek cross { + ).^ Item : take 8 ozs. of dry ginger 

 and 4 ozs. of well-sifted barilla (sajji), with 8 ozs. of flour of 

 mmh ; * mix and knead into a flat girddle-cake and bake ; then char 



1 Bel-haddl, " splint." 



^ The twigs are wrapped in a cloth and then soaked in water. When 

 thoroughly soaked, the cloth is put in hot wood ashes to roast ; soap is 

 applied to the outside of the cloth and the whole is then bound on to the 

 splint. 



^ According to the Zinat^ ^l-Khayl this should be left on seven days. 



* It is heated in the fire and wrapped in a cloth. 



" Pushtak, "ringbone on the fore-feet; " chakdwult "ringbone on the 

 hind-feet." " False ringbone " is called gdnd. Vide also chap. XX. 



® Sawars say, Ghore ne jholl chhor-dt or ghord jhoUddr ho-gdyd, "the 

 horse has let down its wallet," when a thin tncked-up horse, beginning 

 to put on flesh, first gets a round belly. Vide note 4, page 22. 



^ Ghdr para ddgh kamd. 



* Mash, Ar. ; urud or un'd, H., Phaseolus Mungo. 



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