w h en I again had recourse to the same remedy, and it effected a cure, on one administration, during thirty days, >vhen it again attacked him; the remedy was again applied with the same beneficial effect as before. Ulcers and eruptions.— Schirrous ulcers, and other eruptions, frequently break out on their limbs and bodies from the heated state o f the blood, which is increased by their constant and extravagant use o f stimulants ; for whenever they sit down to meat, the first enquiry is (Wosh Skune) Is it stimulating? if it be not, they w ill not touch it, be it ever so good and palatable. These eruptions often turn to leprous affections. The Venereal Disease.— T he most general disorder, however, is the venereal disease, which is said to have been unknown among them, till the period when Ferdinand King o f Castille expelled the Jews from Spain, who coming o v e r to Marocco, and suffering the Africans to cohabit with their O wives and daugOhters, the whole empire was, as it were, inoculated with the dreadful distemper ; they call it the great disease,* or the woman s disorder ; and it has now spread itself into so many varieties, that, I am persuaded, there is scarcely a Moor in Bar- b a ry who has not more or less o f the virus in his blood ; they have no effectual remedy for it ; they know nothing o f the specific mercury, but usually follow a course o f vegetable diet for forty days, drinking during that time decoctions o f sarsapar illa , which afford them a temporary relief. T h e heat o f the climate keeping up a constant perspiration, those who have this disorder, do not suffer so much from it as persons do in Europe; and this, added to their abstaining in general from winè, and all fermented liquors, may be the cause o f their being enabled * In Arabic, el murd el kabeer, or el murd JSn’sâh. to drag through life without undergoing a radical cure, though they are occasionally afflicted with aches and pains till their dissolution. From repeated infection, and extreme negligence, we sometimes see noseless faces, no remedy having been administered to exterminate the infection; ulcers, particularly on the legs, are so common, that one scarcely sees a Moor without them. I have heard many o f them complain, that the y had never enjoyed health or tranquillity since they were first infected. I f any European surgeon happen to prescribe the specific remedy, they generally, from some inaccuracy o f interpretation, want o f confidence, or other cause, neglect to follow the necessary regimen; this aggravates the symptoms, and the y then discontinue the medicine, from a presumption o f its ineffic a c y ; it has even been asserted that mercury does not incorporate with the blood, but passes off with the faeces, producing no salutary effect. In cases o f gonnorrhcea they apply, locally, (the Hendal) coloquinth, which (assisted with tisanes and diuretics) is attended with most beneficial effects. T h e Bashaw Hayanie, an old man o f 100 years o f age, who governed Suse and Agadeer part o f the time when I was established there (and who was a favourite o f the Emperor M ule y Ismael) has assured me, that by compelling the Bukarie blacks to carry burdens up the mountain to the town o f Agadeer, in the heat o f the day, the y have been cured o f this disease. If this be true, it can be attributed on ly to the profuse perspiration in duced b y violent exercise in a hot country. I he constant and general use o f the warm bath may also tend to assuage the virulence o f this enemy to the human constitution. Leprosy.— Leprosy, called Jeddem, is v e ry prevalent in
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