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[N.S.] 



one told, leaves of i Inab u -\?i>Sa i lab l (or mako) one to/a, dried 

 leaves of the mm % tree one told, juice of the leaves of the 

 castor-oil plant a sufficient quantity, fresh green ginger one 

 fulus, dry mint two tolas, garlic two tolas, seed of red chillies one 

 told L o\d gur two tolas, Indian senna 3 one told, common countn 

 ajwdHn* three dam, black myrobalan 5 one mdsha, palds pdpra 

 4 mashas, bhildwan 7 nuts seven, flowers of the mahu,d tree 

 9 mashas, aloes wood 9 9 mashas, dark aloes wood l0 9 mashas, 

 pale ambergris u one mdsha, musk two rati, 12 saffron 6 mashas, 

 otters' testes 13 3 mashas, salep H 6 mashas, curds from the belly 

 of a young Arabian camel 15 6 mashas, dgarqarhd l6 3 dam, taj ll 

 two dam, gum mastic of Rum ,8 two to/as, the red- velvet insect *• 

 two tolas, walnut 9 mashas, cinnamon 6 mashas, cloves one 

 told, quick-silver 9 mashas, juice of betel-leaf two ounces, opium 

 one told. Pound all together, make a pill the size of a wild 

 kundr 20 and give when necessary; give also warm water to 

 drink, 



Chechak or small-pox. — This is the common and well-known 

 disease that attacks men as well as birds and beasts. It arises 

 from black bile. 21 Every man holds and expresses his own 

 opinion concerning the origin of this disease, but most people 



1 Solanum nigrum, Khory, p. 454. For mako, vide note 7, p. 76. 



2 Melia Azadirachta, the Neem or Margosa Tree 



3 Vide note 2, p. 81. 



4 Common ajwain, in contradistinction to ajwain-i-Mxraaanl, the 



henbane : vide note 6, p. 81. 



* Halila-e khurd , the ripe fruit of Terminalia Chebula, the chebulic 



or Black Myrobalan. 



6 Palaspapra, the seeds of Butea frondosa or Bastard teak. 



? Vide note 4, p. 82. 



8 Mahu,a Bassia latifolia. Native wine is made from this fruit. 



Bears are fond of the fruit. 



9 'Ud-i-hindi (Indian wood), technical name for the Aloes- wood, 



Aquilaria Agallocha. . . 



10 - Ud-i-jharqi, aloes-wood that sinks when thrown into w iter : it is 

 of a black colour. See Watt's Dictionary of Economic Products, A. 



1252. 



H Ambar-i-ashhab , white or pale ambergris, pure ambergris. 



grains 



an 



Vide 



Khory, p. 101. , . ^ i ■ i 



1* Sd'lab-i-misri, salep, the root of a species of orchis. Orchis mas d 



15 Ma^-a/itifur-ia'm&i; a forty-days' old camel is allowed to sue 

 its fill of milk and is five hours later slaughtered, when the milk in tl 

 intestines is found in a curdled state. This is dried and sold as a drug 



16 Aqarqarka, the Pellitory of Spain, Anacyclus Pyrethrvm 



17 Vide note 12, p. 76. 



I! [Vide note I, p. 81. ■ 



an 



« mr-oaft«M, me red-velvet insect, the scarlet fly, Trowtf 



grandissimum. _ _ . tv.*. ^v. 



20 Kundr, P=H., 6er, the Ind 



W7 «i A* 4*-Saurf2, an imagined secretion of the renal or atrab.imr> 

 glands. 



