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4 hr
5 per primatn httenfhiwM ; fatal cases seldom occur, but .1 fistula
6 livqcentlv ensues. There are also native oculists at Lahore,
7 who art Musselmen. They sit in the streets, operating with
8 rude instruments; but in spite of their theoretical knowledge*
9 which cannot be denied, they blind more patients than they
10 cuie. Tiie catarr t they depress by means of two instrument*,
11 it lancet ar.J an awl.
12 Tiie three jeralis (native sdrgeons), also Alfthomedmjs, whom
13 the durbar tq pointed to lie iny assistants at the hospitals, did
14 not posses, modi skill, and In ides their ointment boxes they
15 had only snipe razors, lancets, pincers ‘or drawing teeth, end
16 cupping-apparatus Of! operation , with other instruments they
17 had no conception. The) did not even know how to bind
18 an artery, and amputation was a process of wdiich they hud
19 never heard. My operations for the extraction of the stone
20 seemed to them n miracle; they soon, however, became pro¬
21 ficient in the operations of tapping and vaccination, for both
22 of which they had a strong inch otiori..
23 In the Punjab, the inhabitants practice a sort of .inimal-
24 magnetism, which they call jara, or <nunh:r. It is employed for
25 iuilamriiatory, rheumatic and nervous pfdns, especially in the
26 eyes, ears, teeth, 5c c. The operator, a man or wnuian, piuces
27 himself opposite the patient, holding a green branch or a small
28 slick in his baud ; with this lie drives, according to his ass. tion,
29 the evil spirit from the affected, parts, by striking the patient’.;
30 body occasionally with his instrument, in a downward direction.
31 With that lie mixes a little hocus-pocus, by immmumg odd-
32 sonriding words, and at intervals blowing upon the affected parts.
33 The pulse is considered of very great importance 111 the east,
34 mid they believe the doctors are able to investigate by it the most
35 latent dir Uro-copy is also in credit among the natives.
36 Sometimes i could not firbeiir laughing, when at consultations
37 with t!.i hakims; but I thought that when among wolves one
38 must howl also. On one occasion, we drub rated about curing
39 a iihionic gonorrhoea, on which occasion a hakim proposed the
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41 KM