84 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1910. 



As long as the cock is treading the hen, give him daily a 

 little halwa to keep his strength up. 



Diseases of the Game- Fowl. 



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The game fowl is subject to several diseases : (1) Zahrbad 

 or Erysipelas; (2) Chechak or small-pox; (3) Talu ka sar-jdna or 

 canker of the palate ; and (4) Laqwa or paralysis of the face. 



There are three forms of zahrbad. In the first, the comb 

 turns black ; in the second, the face turns black ; and in the 

 third, the nails and comb turn black. If the comb becomes 

 black, chew up some cocoa-nut, with betel- leaf prepared for 

 eating, 2 and give it to the cock. If the face turns black, take 

 long peppers of the smaller variety 3 and old gur and mix and 

 make pills and give to the cock. If the nails turn black, cut 

 off the cock's comb, and pound up cinnamon, gugalf and 

 Lahore salt, together with betel-leaf, and make a pill the size 

 of a wild ber fruit 5 and give it to the cock. Please God a 

 complete recovery will take place. 



Eeceipt for Zahrbad. — Khurasani ajwaHn 6 two dam, 1 pep- 

 per-corns 7 mashas, long-pepper 7 mashas, dry ginger one fulus 



ndal 9 one fulus. parched wheat 7 mashas, bairbaranq 10 



mashas 



mashas, caraway seed u 7 mashas, kail ziri 15 7 mashas, rock salt 

 one tola, namak-i shor l8 one tola, black salt 17 one tola, sambhar ls 

 salt one tola, kasondi ly leaves one tola, leaves of Persian lilac* 



1 Zahr-bad, a name given to several vague diseases, including 

 erysipelas, quinsy, leprous sores, etc. Horses and elephants are specially 

 subject to zahrbad. 



* Pan ka bera is a pan-leaf containing the areca-nut, lime, spices, 

 catechu, etc , prepared for chewing. 



3 Pipal-i khurd. 



* Gum Gugal or Indian Bdellium, Balsamodendron MukuL 



5 Ber-i-&ahra,i, i.e., the size of a small acorn. 



6 Seeds of Hyoscyamus niger , black henbane. 



7 Vide note 6, p. 79. 



8 A pice weight is 6 )riashas. According to the Makhzan, p. 95, it is 

 10 mashas; while the Alamgiri pice, according to the same authority, is 

 equivalent to one tola or 12 rridshas. 



* Bindal, H., a medicinal herb, resembling the betel-leaf. See 

 Makhzan, I. 374. Probably Luff a echinata. 



10 Vide note 11, p. 76. 



11 Kutki, H., a bitter root, Picrorhiza kurrooa* 



12 Fide note 7, p. 80. 



13 Anlsun, the Anise, Pimpinella anisum. 



'* Zlra-e siyah, Caraway seed (Carum nigrum). 



!* Kallzlrl, the Purple Flea-bane, V ernonia anthe mintica . 



16 Kharl nimak, earth-salt ; nimak shor, saltpetre-salt, 



17 Vide note 8, p. 81. 



18 Vide note 7, p. 74. 



*• Kasondi, H., Cassia occidental, Khory, p. 258. 

 *° Bakauan, the Persian lilac, Melia Azedarach. 



