Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c40.198

v3.c40.198

¹ My friend Dr. Joseph Duncan (attached to the Residency when I was Political Agent at Udaipur) was attacked by the *narua* in a very aggravated form. It fixed itself in the ankle-joint, and being broken in the attempt to extricate it, was attended by all the evil results I have described, ending in lameness, and generally impaired health, which obliged him to visit the Cape for recovery, where I saw him on my way home eighteen months after, but he had even then not altogether recovered from the lameness. [Guinea-worm (Dracontiasis), a disease due to the *Filaria medinensis* or *Dracunculus*, known in Persia as *rishtah*, infests the Persian Gulf and many parts of India. See Curzon, *Persia*, ii. 234; Fryer, *New Account of East India and Persia*, ed. 1912, i. 175; Sleeman, *Rambles*, 76; *Asiatic Researches*, vi. 58 ff.; *EB*, 11th ed. xix. 361. The disease from which Job suffered (Job ii. 7) is generally believed to be elephantiasis (A. B. Davidson, *The Book of Job*, 13).]