Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c40.199

v3.c40.199

They have the usual infantine and adult diseases, as in the rest of India. Of these the *sitala*, or ‘smallpox,’ and the *tijari*, or ‘tertian,’ are the most common. For the first, they merely recommend the little patient to Sitala Mata; and treat the other with astringents in which infusion of the rind of the pomegranate is always (when procurable) an ingredient. The rich, as in other countries, are under the dominion of empirics, who entail worse diseases by administering mineral poisons, of whose effects they are ignorant. Enlargement of the spleen under the influence of these fevers is very common, and its cure is mostly the actual cautery.