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2 The Doctor is feeling the pulse of his patient, behind whom is a
3 urinal bottle. A medicine chest, containing simply electuaries and pills
4 (in wooden boxes) is beside him ; before him lies his notebook, and
5 near it his inkstand, with a cane-pen sticking in it, together with pen-
6 knife, scissors, recipes, and a couple of pomegranates.
7 Plate IX. Attar, or, Uttar (Druggist) v. page 150.
8 The Druggist is sitting on the outside of his shop, serving a customer.
9 A very small and simple distilling apparatus, with a refrigerator (cooling
10 vessel) is before him. It is worthy of remark, that not any names or
11 labels are to be seen on any of the bottles or jars ; probably, to keep
12 their contents a secret from others.
13 Plate X. B’hangee (Hemp-plant Drinker) v. page 153.
14 Chursee Bhistee, or Mushkee (a Mahomedan water-
15 carrier) smoking Churrus. In his hand, he holds a hooka, which he
16 is lighting with a coal taken from the fire before him. On his back, is
17 the goat-skin in which he carries water.
18 Faqueer Postee (Poppy-head Drinker) smoking his hooka,
19 while rubbing poppy-heads with his hands in a vessel with water, which
20 he afterwards strains through a cloth and drinks. He is tattooed on
21 the arm. Behind him may be seen the goat-skin containing water.
22 Plate XI. Kar-Khana Abkaree (Stillatory) v. page 157.
23 The Distiller, as well as the Drinker, is a Mahomedan. This mode
24 of distilling is, however, very imperfect.
25 Plate XII. Fac simile of the Badela (document) re-appointing
26 the Author of this work Physician to the Court of Lahore, also,
27 Superintendent to the Gunpowder and to the Gunstock Manufactories,
28 delivered by the Vizier (Wuzeer) Jowahar Sing, under Dulleep Sing s
29 government. A copy of the document is exhibited on account of its
30 peculiarities. It is headed with the Signature of the Vizier, and
31 stamped with three seals ; the innermost of which, like the document
32 itself, is in the Persian language ; the other two, together with the
33 Vizier’s signature, are in the Goormukee character, similar to the
34 Grunth (holy-book) of the Sikhs ; and which characters are already
35 known in Europe. On the margin of the page is a Signature, which
36 may serve as a specimen of the many signatures with which the back
37 of the document is covered . v. page 113.
38 Plate XIII. Copy of a document, in Persian, authorizing the
39 writer of these volumes to establish, for his own account, a Beet-root