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told, dry powdered ginger 1 9 mashas, black myrobalan' 2 9 

 mashaSy old gur 2h tolas. Make into pills and of these give one 

 told in weight ; give, too, in the evening, warm water to 

 drink. 3 Please God a recovery will take place. 



Remedy for a hen that is egg-bound or for one that lays 

 eggs with soft shells — To make a hen lay, some experts give 

 burnt cowrie-shells, while others give wheat-flour mixed with 

 barley-bran, and others again give wax and gum-mastic mixed. 

 Some cockers, to an egg-bound hen, give, mixed with wax, two 

 grains of glass as finely powdered as antimony for the eyes ; and 

 to a hen that does not lay, one mdsha of similarly ground glass 

 and one mdsha of wax, mixed together and made into a pill : 

 this should prove efficacious. Others give in the morning 

 before food bone-dust mixed with wax, for a period of from 

 three days to one week, which is a good and proved remedy for 

 a hen-pigeon also, the quantity being regulated to the size of 

 the bird. 



On making a dusting-place for fowls.— Dig a hole in the 

 ground about one and a half spans deep, and fill up with fine earth 

 as fine as hemp-seed.* Let the fowls take dust-baths and clean 

 themselves in this. Should lice make their appearance, oi 

 canker of the feathers, then take 4 ounces of ghar-bachcha 6 

 with | lb. of onion-juice, |lb. of old water from a used water- 

 pipe, and sprinkle the fowl with it, and then let the fowl dust 

 itself in the pit. 



To cause a broken spur to grow. — Take of the marking-nut 



plant 6 half a pound, castor-oil seed £ lb., small burnt fish 7 2 

 ounces, mom-rawgjkan 8 4 ounces, and red mustard seed (sarson). 

 Make all into an ointment and bind on to the injured spur 

 with a cloth, and spout the spur daily, three times, with cold 

 water. Do this for a week. If the soles of the feet get 

 swollen, scrape them, apply to them a thick coating of antimony 

 for the eyes, and bind above that a rag well smeared with th< 

 above ointment. 



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1 South 8atv 9 a ; south is dry ginger ; while satu*a is applied to a 

 special kind of ginger, and means ' pulverable, free from threads or 

 fibres.' 



* Vide note 5, p. 85. 



3 The cock would be kept thirsty during the day. 



* Dana-e-mTing, lit. rnung, a kind of pulse. 



5 Ghar bachcha is the same as darvnaj-i-'aqrabi Doronicum pardali- 

 auches: it is described by the author of the Makhzau, p. 647, as a 

 scorpioid knotted root with greyish exterior and white interior ; hard, 

 faintly bitter, and aromatic. See also Khory, p. 362. 



6 Bhilawau; vide note 4, p. 82. 



7 Mahl-e aok/tta-P-Miird. 



8 Wax and 



