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XI. — Miscellaneous Notices. 

 Extracts from a Native Receipt Book. 

 The following receipts may prove highly useful to such of your correspondents as 

 are engaged in Indian field sports, and can appreciate the advantage of being 

 their own elephant doctors when professional advice is not procurable ; they are 

 extracted from the nostrums of a first-rate Delhi mahout, and I have had an op- 

 portunity of trying most of them at different times in my sporting days, when 

 I made a point of attending personally to the comforts and welfare of my noble 

 sporting companion. Should these receipts prove useful to fill a vacant sheet 

 occasionally, I shall be happy to continue the supply. W. L. 



Medicines, Sfc. for Elephants. 

 1. When an elephant's back is swollen, and it is necessary to cut it to let 

 out the matter, the wound is to be well cleansed with the following, previously 

 to filling it with No. 2. Make an extract from the root of the mada>, add thereto 

 1 chittak of salt and 1 cowrie weight of nila tutia, to be removed every evening 

 for about 8 days, to cleanse the inside well ; then fill it with No. 2 for about 16 days, 

 removed twice a day, at first for 8 days, and afterwards once in 8 days, and the 

 upper part of the wound and swelling to be well anointed with the salve No. 2. No. 

 3 to be then sprinkled well over the wound twice a day. 



2. Salve for the sore back. 



Musabbar, [aloes] 4 chittaks 



Sindur Guzarati, [red lead ] 2 ditto 



Olive Oil 4 ditto 



Chota jewarkiatta, [flower of barley.] 2 seers 



Karwa tel, [mustard oil.] 1 seer 



Nila tutia, [blue vitriol.] 2 chittaks 



Wax .-...- 2 ditto 



Opium 1 cowrie wt. 



3. To dry up the sore. 



Nutmegs 2 



Ilachis, (cardamums.) 1 chittak 



Dar-chini, [cinnamon.] 1 ditto 



Isafgol, [Plantago.~\ 1 chittack 



Tukhm-Balangu, ( Dracosephalum Royleanum.) ] ditto 



Sang jarahal, (alum ?) 1 ditto 



Papri kat, (white catechu.) 1 ditto 



To be finely powdered and sifted through fine cloth, and to be applied to the 

 wound to dry it up. 



4. Lotion for inflamed eyes, Sfc. 

 Rab-ul-sus or liquorice to be soaked in water in an earthen pot, and to be 

 beaten to a strong froth with the hand, and as it subsides is to be taken up and 

 thrown upon the elephant's eyes; this is very cooling. 



5. Ditto another. 



Poppy heads 4 chittaks 



Dhania, [coriander seed.] 4 ditto 



Sounph, [aiiethum.] , 4 ditto 



Nousadar, [sal ammoniac] 4 ditto 



Salt, Bheri, [black salt.] 4 ditto 



Salt, Samar 4 ditto 



To be steeped in water for 4 days in the shade in an earthen vessel. 



