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allows the frogs, if uninjured by the knife, to rest upon the 

 ground, by which thrushes and contracted heels are pre- 

 vented. It also enables the smith when fitting the shoe to 

 bend it up at the toe, if required, by a few blows of the 

 hammer. This shape lessens any tendency to trip which 

 may exist, and diminishes the strain on the back tendons. 



In India charcoal is used instead of coal for making shoes, 

 both in European and native forges. 



All batteries and regiments are allowed native shoeing- 

 smiths to assist the British farriers. In some forges they 

 only take off and nail on shoes, and strike at the anvil. If 

 permitted they can learn both to make and fit shoes in the 

 English style quite as well as Europeans, and they ought to 

 be taught to do so, because in the autumn of almost every 

 year malarious fever is so prevalent that if the European 

 smiths alone can fit shoes the shoeing will often be consider- 

 ably behindhand owing to the number of men in hospital. 



Bazaar Medicines. 



The medicines used in regiments and batteries are partly 

 obtained from England and partly from the bazaars. Such 

 substances as nitrate of silver, tartar emetic, nitrous and 

 sulphuric ethers, are supplied from the Government medical 

 depots ; but many of the medicines in everyday use can be 

 bought of fairly good quality in most large bazaars. 



The following are the most common bazaar medicines, 

 together with their native names, without knowing which 

 there is sometimes a difficulty in procuring exactly what is 

 wanted : 



Acetate of copper, called jangal, is not very pure, but is 

 sufficiently so for external application. I have found it the 

 best of all remedies when mixed with alum and flour in the 

 treatment of most cases of open joints. 



Aloes, called masabbar, is, I think, the Cape variety, which 

 it resembles in appearance, and in strength as a purgative 

 when good, but it cannot always be relied upon. It is there- 

 fore better to indent upon the Government Stores for it. 



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