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feem that in cafe of wounds, gun-ilint or fabre, nothing 

 more was done, than wafliing them, and tying them up with 

 frefli leaves ; and after fifteen days the patient was out of 

 danger, and could move about, but during that time he had 

 taken nothing but the C<7;;o/, or water-gruel of rice*. The 

 inflance was of a Mr. Stuart^ wounded in the defeat Ayder had 

 from the Mahrattas at Malecotta. He was taken prifoner, car- 

 ried to a Choultry by way of hofpital, and treated with the hu- 

 manity juft defcribed. 



I MUST by no means omit one branch of European furgery, Taliacotia?* 

 that has of late been pradifed with great fuccefs by a Poonab 

 artift, who has lately revived the Taiiacotian art, differing only 

 in the material, for he does not apply to the brawny parts of 

 porter's, See. Sec. to reftore the mutilated patient. I am not 

 mailer of the procefs, but am told it is by cutting the fkin and 

 mufcles of the forehead on three fides, and drawing it over the 

 deficient part. If the bridge of the nofe is injured, I prefume 

 that mufl be fupplied by fome ingenious invention. The Hir- 

 carrah^ or Madras Gazette of Augujl 5th, 1794, informs us, 

 that Cowasjee two years before fell under the difpleafure of 

 tippoo Sultariy who inftantly ordered the nafal amputation. The 

 fufferer applied to the great reflorer of Hindoojlan nofes, and a 

 new one, equal to all the ufes of its predecefTor, immediately 

 rofe in its place. It can fneeze fmartly, diltinguifli good 

 from bad fmells, bear the raofl provoking lug, or being well 

 blown v/ithout danger of falling into the handkerchief. It 



* Sketches of the Hindoos, ii. p. 94, 



will- 



