A belt or flat strip made of flannel or wool and tied around the stomach as a preventative measure against cholera and dysentery, as it was believed that a cold abdomen was the cause of these ailments. It was typically 6 feet long and 6 inches wide and was part of standard army uniform in India during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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