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hold the view that it is engendered in the foetus while still in 

 the womb, through the mother's menstrual blood. 



Remedy. — Kalcarwandd leaves [ 2 tolas, pepper-corns 4 

 mashas. Apply juice of the leaves of the above plant to the 

 cock's face. Then pound together the two ingredients as stated 

 and make into pills the size of a wild her % and give daily morn- 

 ing and evening. Should a cure not take place, then burn old 

 leather and smoke the cock's head. Should even this not result 

 in a cure, then grind together equal quantities of cubebs 8 and 

 red ochre. 4 



Another .—)\ &y£ tii«» \*pyy 4 ounces, fresh shell lime 5 6 

 mashas, carbonate of soda 6 3 mashas, frog's fat 4 tolas, worms 

 from rhinocerus dung one tola, old sanbar 7 leather burnt 2 

 tolas, asgand nagawari 8 9 mashas, burnt alum 6 mashas, blue- 

 stone 5 mashas, pure wax 2 ounces, well-water a sufficient 

 quantity, white catechu u one tola, oxide of lead I0 one tola, 

 dmla u sdr sulphur 9 mashas, camphor 6 mashas , betel-nut 2. 

 washed kamila n 6 mashas, kaseld ,3 6 mashas. Make into an 

 ointment in the ordinary way and anoint the wounds. 



. Disease of the Palate. — This is a common disease known to 

 all cockers : it needs no description. 



Remedy. — Safida of Kashghar H 6 mashas, white catechu I5 

 4 mashas. Grind together and apply to the palate, which should 

 be first well ^cleansed. Take juice of henna leaves 4 ozs., red 

 ochre one told, rasaut 16 9 mashas, cubebs 9 mashas. Mix a suffici- 



l The leaves of Blumea lacera, also called in Hindi jangli mull. 



- The fruit of the wild ber, Zizyphus Jujuba, resembles the crab- 

 apple in flavour and appearance and is never larger than a gooseberry. 

 (Watt's Dictionary.) 



3 Kabab-chlni , H., cubebs, Piper cubeba. 



4 Geru, red ochre. 



6 Chuna-e-sadaf, called in Hindustani sipi lea chuna. 



6 Sajji, natron, impure carbonate of soda. 



7 The Sanbar stag. 



8 Asgand nagawri, the root of Withania somnifera. 



9 Kath, the pale catechu of India, a grey crystalline substance 

 prepared from a concentrated decoction of Acacia Catechu wood. 



10 Murdar sang, litharge or oxide of lead. 



H Amla-sar, the pale yellow variety of sulphur, also called Kibrit-i 

 Farsl. Vide Khory, p. 60. 



12 It is a convention to wash it in a hundred waters, Kamila H., 



a red powder chiefly obtained from the ripe capsules of Mallotus philippi- 



nensis. 



13 Kasela Hindi, the name of two species of gall. Called in Bengali 

 Bara and chhota ma,i. Dr. Hooper of the Indian Museum tells me that 

 the latter is the gall of Tamarix articulata, a tree abundant in Sindh 

 and in the Punjab. The Arabic name is said to be mmarat* 'l-asl. 

 The former is the gall of Tamarix gall<ca. Both are astringent and used 

 in tanning instead of the true oak-gall. 



1* Safeda-e-Kashghari, carbonate of lead. 

 16 Vide note 9, above. 



16 Rasaut. H., the dried extract of the root of the barberry, Berberis 

 arista ta . 



