Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

208 THE JUNGLE-GRASS.

is then boiled in an iron vessel, until the mois-
ture is entirely absorbed, and the salt only left
at the bottom. The salt is administered in
half-grain doses at the first, and increasing the
quantity when the patient has become accus-
tomed to its influence: it would be dangerous
to add to the quantity suddenly.

Another efficient remedy, both for asthma
and obstinate continuance of a cough, is found
in the salt extracted from tobacco-leaves, by
a similar process, which is administered with
the like precaution, and in the same quantities.
The sirrakee and sainturh are two specimens
of one genus of jungle-grass, the roots of which
are called secundah, or khus-khus, and are
collected on account of their aromatic smell, to
form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors
and windows; which being kept constantly
watered, the strong wind rushing through the
wet khus-khus is rendered agreeably cool, and
produces a real luxury at the season of the hot
winds, when every puff resembles a furnace-
heat to those exposed to it by out-of-door
occupation.