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ON THE CURE OF THE ELEPHANTIASIS, 

 JND OTHER DISORDERS OF THE BLOOD. 



00D IS THE AXL-POWERFTJL HEALER. 



IN the year of the Messiah 1783, when the worthy 

 and respectable Maulavi Mir Muhammed Husain, 

 who excels in every branch of useful knowledge, ac- 

 companied Mr. Richard Johnson from Lac'hnau to 

 Calcutta, he visited the humble writer of this tract, 

 who had long been attached to him with sincere 

 affection ; and, in the course of their conversation, 

 ' One of the fruits of my late excursion,' said he, 

 ' is a present for you, which suits your profession, 

 ' and will be generally useful to our species. Conceiv- 



* ing you to be worthy of it, by reason of your assi- 

 ' duity in medical inquiries, I have brought you a pre- 

 f scription, the ingredients of which are easily found, 

 f but not easily equalled as a powerful remedy against 



* all corruptions of the blood, xhtjudham, and the 

 1 Persian fire, the remains of which are a source of 

 « infinite maladies. It is an old secret of the Hindu 



* physicians, who applied it also to the cure of cold 



* and moist distempers; as the palsy, distortions of the 



* face, relaxation of the nerves, ana! similar diseases. 



* Its efficacy too has been proved by long experience; 



* and this is the method of preparing it :— 



* Take of white arsenic, fine and fresh, one tola \ 



* of picked black pepper six times as much : let both 



* be well beaten at intervals for four days successively 

 « in an iron mortar, and then reduced to an impalpa- 



