54 APPENDIX "b^' 



In the hot weather make the mixture with curds, but in the cold 

 substitute vinegar for the curds. 



37. — To Make a Horse Long-winded i 



Procure a black cobra and so kill it that it has no outward injury : 

 the blood and poison must be intact. Then take one hundred grains of 

 gram, or a little less, but the grains must be large and perfect. Force 

 the gram into the snake's throat and then close its mouth ; cast the 

 cobra into a porous earthen vessel and bury in the ground for forty 

 days, surrounding the pot on all sides with horse-dung. After forty 

 days, take out the gram and clean it, and keep in a safe spot. Before 

 going on a journey, give one grain in rdtib or parched flour (^sattii). 

 This is an ancient Deccan receipt. 



38. — ZangarI Ointment (for Fistulous Sores) 



Take of fresh neem leaves 8 ddm'^ weight; of beeswax, rosin, and 

 zangdr,^ 1 dam each ; 1 onion ; of cinnabar and kamild * 1 ddm ; of 

 English soap 5 dam, and of copper sulphate 8 ddm. Pound separately 

 and sift. Then take of mustard oil ^ lb., if the season is winter ; bat 

 sesamum oil if it be summer. First cook the neem leaves in the oil and 

 then cast them away ; next cook the onion, removing it when cooked. 

 Afterwards sift in the other ingredients, one after another, not altogether. 

 When the ointment is ready, set aside. 



39. — On Purging 



A horse should be purged once a year when the nights are mild; 

 this keeps it in health. The evening before purging, substitute for the 

 evening-feed a bran-mash. In the morning give no feed, but administer 

 the following : 1^ ozs. (or 3 told) of aloes ; 32 grains (or 2 mdsha) of 

 sweet fennel ; 32 grains of dry ginger ; pound, sift and set aside. Take 

 I oz. of English soap and add sufficient electuary of rose-leaves ^ to make 

 the whole into a bolus and give to the horse. Walk the horse about for 

 a little and then tether in the stall, giving it a little grass to eat. 



If you wish to make the horse stale also, add to the bolus 48 grains 

 of refined saltpetre ^ and 48 grains of gum-arabic.'' 



If the horse is suddenly and excessively purged, either give it cold 

 water, or else curds and water mixed. 



' Dur-dam. 



^ Ddm. Vide page 51, note 6. 



' Zdngdr, subacetate of copper. 



* Kamlla, Mallotus Philippenensis. 



* Gul-qand, an electuary made of pounded rose-leaves mixed with sugar- 

 candy syrup. 



* Shora-e qalaml, saltpetre in crystals. ' 

 7 Gond babul. * 



