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which in the hands of brutal drivers is entirely abused, 

 and pieces of the nostrils are actually torn away by 

 violence and nasty sores formed. The natives in India 

 have a remedy which if applied twice daily will cure a 

 bad case in a few days. Its component parts are 



Tolas 



' Akh ' leaves . , . . , . ' , .6 



' Bilawa ' (a medicinal plant) , , . , .10 



' Tara meera tel ' (oil made from a herb) . . .20 



' Tootia ' (blue vitriol or tutty) . . . ... 20 



Maggots will appear in any wound that has been 

 neglected, and in a remarkably short space of time, 

 and the utmost care should be exercised in dressing a 

 wound regularly twice a day, so as to keep out the fly- 

 blows. If they do get in, spirits of turpentine should be 

 squirted into the wound, or a piece of tow dipped in it 

 and placed on the wound. 



Camels have sometimes also a running from the nose, 

 not due to catarrh, but whether from the same cause 

 as the above I cannot say. Arabs and Moors brand 

 the nose cross-wise with a hot iron. I have found alum 

 and a wet rag dipped in salt water very efficacious for 

 sores of all kinds when, as I have been oftener than 

 not, in charge of convoys on the march without 

 medicines or appliances of any sort, and without the 

 slightest chance of getting them. A dollop of Nile mud 

 proved a most useful and excellent remedy : after having 

 first washed and cleaned the sore, it was allowed to 

 harden, and of course the animal carried neither saddle 

 nor load. I will not assert positively that it had any 

 curative properties, though it certainly not only kept 

 the sores very fresh and healthy, but the flies from 

 settling on them, and, what is more, they were not long 



