Affusion

The act of pouring a liquor upon something. ( Med .) The affusion of cold water on the head or body dyeing materials; shawls and turbans, Mooltanee chintzes, and indigo.- Rel . Mahometanism.- Pop . about 5,000,000.-Lat. between 28° and 30° N.; Lon. between 620 and 73° E.-The Afghans seem to have, at all times, manifested a strong predilection for war, and all the foreign invasions which swept the plains of Hindostan previous to the advent of the British on the shores of India proceeded from A. The greatest rulers of A. in modern times were Ahmed Khan (1730-1772), who liberated his country from Persia, and Dost Mohammed (1829-1863), who, not without glory, long resisted a British invasion; defeated the Persians, and ultimately took po e ion of Herat. The ambition of England has always been to establish a distinct and paramount influence in A., and so to shut to Ru ia the three great highways which connect A. with India. With that aim, British armies have several times invaded A. , but these expeditions, though attended with easy victories, have always proved a failure. In 1878 again, the English government having sent to Shere Ali, one of the sons of Dost Mohammed, and then the ruler of Cabul, a mi ion so numerous as to look rather like an army than an emba y, the Ameer refused to receive it, and before IMG:content-0069.png:[graphic] of patients is sometimes practised with succe by phy-long the mi ion turned into an invasion. Cabul and sicians, especially in the treatment of typhus fever, when the fever is of a low contagious character and in its early stage.