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A TREATISE ON ELEPHANTS. 
(20) Sour milk 
Boiled rice 
Onions 
Green ginger 
Give once a day, and continue 
(21) Oil of turpentine, 2-oz. doses, mixed with white of egg or 
gruel, but must not be used when the kidneys are affected. 
This drug must not be given with water. 
(22) Radishes have a diuretic action. Dose 6 to 24 lbs. 
The bark, root and seeds of the common moringa or drumstick fruit 
tree may be given in doses of i to 4 lbs. 
Laxatives or aperients. — Agents which act gently on the 
bowels :- — 
(23) Tamarind pulp ... ... ..la r 1 
^ ^' ^ f f • ^ 8 ozs. of each. 
Common salt ... ... 
(24) Castor or Linseed oil ... ... i to pts. 
(25) Tamarind pulp ... ... ... 2 ozs. 
Salt ... ... ... 8 ozs. 
Cassia pulp ... ... ... i oz. 
Sweet oil ... ... ... 8 ozs. 
Cummin ... ... ... i oz. 
Mix and put the whole in a tender plantain leaf and give. — Steel. 
(26) Tamarind pulp ... ,„ ... 6 ozs. 
Epsom salts ... ... ,,, 10 to 12 ozs. 
(27) Sublimed sulphur ... ... 4 ozs. 
Jaggery ... ... ... A sufficiency. 
(28) Clarified butter or ghee ... ... i to 2 lbs. 
Mixed with honey or jaggery. 
Purgatives. — Purgatives are medicines which cause evacuation 
of the bowels ; the milder are called laxatives or aperients. Mahouts 
are much averse to the use of purgatives. 
Purgatives often cause severe griping pains ; in order to correct 
this they are usually combined with some warm aromatic drugs 
sijch as- aniseed, ginger, coriander, cardamoms, caraway seeds, 
allspice, nutmeg, etc., in doses of \ oz. and more. 
Extract of Hyoscyamus may be used in drachm doses with the 
same object, combined with aloes, colocynth, etc. 
3 
10 lbs. of each. 
... I lb. 
if necessary for two or three days. 
