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GANGE TIC HINDOOSTAN. 237
feem that in cafe of wouncls, gun-fliot or fabre, nothing
more was done, than wafliing them, and tying them up vvith
frefli lcaves; and after fifteen days the patient was out of
danger, and could move about, but during that tirae he had
taken nothing but the Cängi, or water-gruel of rice*. The
inftance was of a Mr. Stuart, wounded in the defeat Ayder had
from the Mahrattas at Malecotta. He was taken prifoner, car-
ried to a Choultry by.way of hofpital, and treated with-the hu-
rnanity juft defcribed..
I must by no means omit one branch of European furgery, Taliacotian
' Art revived,
that has of late been practifed with great iuccefs by a Poonab
artift, wlio has lately revived the 'Taliacotian art, differing only
in the material, for he does not apply to the brawny parts of
portefsy 8cc. &c. to reftore the mutilated patient. I am not
mafter of the procefs, but am told it is by cutting the fkin and
mufcles of the forehead on three fides, and drawing it over the
deficient part. If the bridge of the nofe is injured, I prefume
that muft be fupplied by fome ingenious invention. The Hir-
carrahy or Madras Gazette of Auguß 5th,, 1794, informs us,.
that Cozuasjee two years before feil under the difpleafure of
Tippoo Sultan, who inftantly ordered the nafal amputation. The
fufferer applied to the great reftorer of Hindooßan nofes, and a
new one,. equal to all the ufes of its predeceflbr, immediately
rofe in its place. It can fneeze fmartly, diftinguifh good-
from bad fmells, bear the moft provoking lug, or being welL
blown without danger of falling into the handkerchief. It
* Sketche» of the Hindoos, ii. p. 94,.
will'
feem that in cafe of wouncls, gun-fliot or fabre, nothing
more was done, than wafliing them, and tying them up vvith
frefli lcaves; and after fifteen days the patient was out of
danger, and could move about, but during that tirae he had
taken nothing but the Cängi, or water-gruel of rice*. The
inftance was of a Mr. Stuart, wounded in the defeat Ayder had
from the Mahrattas at Malecotta. He was taken prifoner, car-
ried to a Choultry by.way of hofpital, and treated with-the hu-
rnanity juft defcribed..
I must by no means omit one branch of European furgery, Taliacotian
' Art revived,
that has of late been practifed with great iuccefs by a Poonab
artift, wlio has lately revived the 'Taliacotian art, differing only
in the material, for he does not apply to the brawny parts of
portefsy 8cc. &c. to reftore the mutilated patient. I am not
mafter of the procefs, but am told it is by cutting the fkin and
mufcles of the forehead on three fides, and drawing it over the
deficient part. If the bridge of the nofe is injured, I prefume
that muft be fupplied by fome ingenious invention. The Hir-
carrahy or Madras Gazette of Auguß 5th,, 1794, informs us,.
that Cozuasjee two years before feil under the difpleafure of
Tippoo Sultan, who inftantly ordered the nafal amputation. The
fufferer applied to the great reftorer of Hindooßan nofes, and a
new one,. equal to all the ufes of its predeceflbr, immediately
rofe in its place. It can fneeze fmartly, diftinguifh good-
from bad fmells, bear the moft provoking lug, or being welL
blown without danger of falling into the handkerchief. It
* Sketche» of the Hindoos, ii. p. 94,.
will'