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vomjtting o f green or y e llow bile, recovered after suffering in various degrees, and that those who were affected with giddiness, or delirium, followed by a discharge or vomiting o f black bile, invariably died after ling ering one, two, or three days, their bodies being covered with small black spots similar to grains o f gu n -p ow d e r: in this state, however, they possessed their intellects, and spoke rationally till their dissolution. W h en the constitution was not disposed, or had not vigour enough to throw the miasma to the surface in the form o f biles, buboes, carbuncles, or blackish spots, the virulence is supposed to have operated inwardly, or on the vital parts, and the patient died in less than twenty-four hours, without any exterior disfiguration. C a s e IV .— It was reported that the Sultan had the plague twice during the season, as many others had ; 'so that the idea o f its attacking like the small-pox, a person but once in his life, is refuted : the Sultan was cured by large doses o f Pe ruvian bark frequently repeated, and it was said that he found such infinite benefit from it, that he advised his brothers never to tra ve l without h a vin g a good supply. T he Emperor, since the plague, always has b y him a sufficient quantity o f quill bark to supply his emergency. C a s e V .— H. L. was smitten with the plague, which affected him b y a pain similar to that o f a long needle (as he expressed h imse lf) repeatedly plunged into his groin. In an hour or two afterwards, a (jimmera) carbuncle appeared in the groin, which continued enlarging three days, at the expiration o f which period he could neither support the pain, nor conceal his sensations ; he laid himself down on a c o u c h ; an Arabian doctor, applied to the carbuncles the testicles o f a ram cut in half, whilst the vital warmth was still in th em ; the carbuncle on the third day was encreased to the size o f a small o ra n g e ; the beforementioned remedy was daily applied during thirty days, after which he resorted to cataplasms o f the ju ice o f the (opun- tia) prick ly pear-tree, (feshook) gum ammoniac, and (zite el aucl) oil o f olives, o f each one-third : this was intened to promote suppuration, which was soon effe cted; there remained after the suppuration a large vacuity, w hich was d a ily filled with fine hemp dipped in honey; by means-of this application the wound filled up, and the whole was w e ll in thirty-nine days. C a s e V I.— El I I— t— e, a trading Jew o f Mogodor, was sore ly afflicted ; he called upon me, and requested some remedy ; I ad vised him to use o il o f olives, and having Mr. Baldwin’s mode o f administering it,* 1 transcribed it in the A rab ic language, and gave it to him ; he followed the prescription, and assured me, about six weeks afterwards, (that with the blessing o f God) he had preserved his life by that remedy o n ly ; he said, that after having been anointed with oil, his skin became harsh and dry like the scales o f a fish, but that in h a lf an hour more, a profuse perspiration came on, and continued for another h a lf hour, after which he experienced relief : this he repeated forty days, when he was quite recovered. C a s e V I I .— Moh— m ’d ben A fe ll suddenly down in the s tre et; he was conveyed home ; three carbuncles and five buboes appeared soon after in his groin, under the jo in t o f * M>r. Baldwin observed, that whilst the plague ravaged Egypt, the dealers in oil were not affected with the epidemy, and he accordingly recommended people to anoint themselves with oil every day as a remedy. B B


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