1 .
2 local babieuiH cvharintae citrulli . a water-melon was {u-bpo -k 1
3 to be procured and opened, the contents of it to be crushed, and
4 the mtsnthrum virile una rum scrota introduced. Another,
5 Coasting of his ability, brought a still better remedy tut the
6 carpet, recommending it as a probat.um est. This highly praised
7 remedy consisted in roasting a sugar-melon, wrapp d in dbligh,
8 and while lnke-wayat making a hole therein per quod foramen
9 perns vrertus inserendus et unman nirih injineuduw asset,
10 a'isum enentu amici !—But we did not employ either, a hakim
11 of Peshawur prescribing pills of catnpbor, coned wins tntjenfeiis,
12 opium, pyrethrmii and xcdoari /’; these, together with some
13 injections of solution of sulphates of zinc end copper which
14 1 administered, produced tin- desired result, and the patient
15 was cured within a month.
16 Those' consultations were generally held in the presence of the
17 patient, so that lie might choose whichever remedy he preferred.
18 In the assembly of the hakims, the Persian language was ‘poken,
19 and the * technical terms used were Arabic* which no patient
20 could understand; but if there were present any Hindoo phy¬
21 sicians or pundits (Astrologers), which was always the case when
22 consultations were held at respectable houses, then the Indian
23 language was spoken, because generally the Indians are , not
24 versed in the Persian.
25 Aims are given on every occasion of illness, but mostly at
26 the time when the patient's last, hour stems to be near ; and
27 consequently large numbers of poor faqueors and Brahmins
28 assemble oli these occasions at the entrance to the houses, espe¬
29 cially of those inhabited by wealthy people.
30 Chronic dissaves are temporarily treated with a composition of
31 inyrobalons; and in the following spring china root deceptions
32 are employed. This is their lost' resource; which corresponds
33 with the “change of air" recommended by our European
34 •physicians, that being the panacea invariably resorted to by the
35 latter, when they are at a loss what to do with their patients.
36 I have already mentioned the asylum for,lunatics which I