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the morning, at noon and in the evening to the patient. A profuse 

 perspiration is brought on, which tends much to produce an early cure. 

 In very severe fever cases^it is given for several successive days if 

 necessary. 



In dysentery and diarrhaea they administer various medicaments. 

 The fresh root of the bhooie sakiy is pounded, and the juice expressed 

 and mixed with goat's milk or with water. This is given for three 

 successive days early in the morning, fasting. A little lime juice and 

 sugar candy, to which is added some poppy seed that has been soaked 

 all night in water, is mixed to form a paste, which the patient takes for 

 three successive mornings. The root of the yell toorrah is prepared 

 and administered in the same manner. The root of the ran (jungle) 

 bhendy (Hibiscus esculentus) is pounded and mixed with dhyn, or 

 sour thick milk, and administered also. 



They cure wounds of all descriptions by filling them or placing over 

 them the pounded bark of the dhoully khurmutty tree — they also use 

 the pounded leaves of the cully -tree for the same purpose. 



To children they give a small quantity (a pice weight) of the juice of 

 the oombre tree, they obtain this before sun-rise, by making an incision 

 in the bark of the tree ; this is mixed with an equal quantity of the 

 mother's milk, and given for several days. 



In cases of marasmus in children, the pod of a creeper, called the 

 ir.orrar sengh, is ground down in milk or water ; and the fruit of the 

 kombullna (a bush) about the size of a small lemon, are mixed together, 

 and a small quantity given to the young patient for three or four days. 



They use various roots as purgatives. For the toothache they 

 apply a small pill, the size of a pea, made of the leaves of the ran 

 (jungle) moggury. This is laid on the diseased tooth ; if it touches 

 the tongue or gums it raises a blister. 



They are much annoyed with rheumatic pains in December and 

 January. To cure this they apply the actual cautery and burning tur- 

 meric. 



Beggars are seldom seen in the small villages in the hills ; it might 

 therefore be supposed that the inhabitants were not often called upon 

 to exercise the duties of charity ; however, it is known that there are 

 many indigent, blind, and sickly persons who are supported entirely 

 by the bounty of their relatives, who are actuated solely by the praise- 

 worthy motive of strong natural affection. Very possibly a spirit of 

 ancestral pride might induce a few persons to bestow a little in 

 charity to their poor connections, rather than hear of their subsisting 

 by mendicity among strangers. To persons passing through their 

 villages, they are generally attentive and kind, and they will permit 

 them to occupy the small temple of the tutelary deity of the place, or 

 some family will grant them leave to sleep in the shed adjoining their 

 dwelling, in which their household gods are kept. The Kolies build 

 their houses by erecting a number of posts, filling up the intermediate 



