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tient fell. at the same time in a similar 
state. q 
Having lain for about five minutes, 
he was raised by his countrymen, and 
gradually recovered his senses. He then 
again began to play, singing in a plain- 
tive strain: ei Temeerum, Temeerum 
(Temeera was the name of the patient), 
whilst the poor woman seemed to lay in 
a burning fever. 
This foolery was repeated for nine 
nights. On the last night, the enchan- 
ter made the patient drink large quan- 
tities of warm water, and smoke tobacco, 
in order to excite vomiting. The pa- 
tient, indeed, for the present recovered; 
but, after the lapse of a few weeks, her 
malady returned, which probably was 
periodical. 
If a malady is thought to be of such 
a nature, that neither the durgheer or 
bakssu can avail, the inhabitants of the 
oul, and especially the relations, will 
meet, and watch for nights with the pa- 
tient. If no priest is at hand, a man or 
a woman will repeat a few verses from 
the Koran from memory, blowing after 
every verse into the patient’s face. The 
latter, on his side, chaunts, as long as 
he is able, ot Adlai mai! (oh my God !) 
&c. Aged people make a kind of will, 
not only in favour of their families, but 
of all the people. One man, for ex- 
ample, ordered that every one who 
should pass over a mountain where there 
were any grinding-stones, should take 
one with him, in order to whet his 
knife for the purpose of cutting the 
meat in honour of his hospitality. If 
any one dies, one may hear at least fifty 
persons raising the most dreadful howls; 
while some of the women will tear their 
hair, strike their breasts, scratch their 
faces, &c. If the death occurs in the 
evening, these lamentations are con- 
tinued during the whole night. The 
corpse is washed with water, wrapped 
up in linen, and buried, with the head 
lying towards the north-west, in a man- 
ner that the earth shall not be imme- 
diately on the body ; which is effected 
either by making the grave in a slanting 
direction, or covering the body first 
with reeds or branches, before the earth 
is placed upon it. If they happen to 
be near a burying-ground they will bury 
the body in it; and rich people will 
sometimes remove the bodies of their 
relations from a temporary grave, in 
order to inter them among their kin- 
dred, and erect over their graves some 
sort of monument, either of stone or 
brick (masarka). A large burying- 
Method of Imitating the Mineral Waters of Germany, &c. (Oct. 1, 
ground (moola), or, as they are more 
commonly called, holy places (aw/yd), 
is commonly placed near some river. 
On burying the dead, they recite a 
short prayer, which they repeat at the 
seventh and fortieth days, and at the 
end of the year, with the difference, that 
there is more ceremony at this period of 
the obsequies than at any of the former. 
Anciently they used to bury arms and 
otherarticles with their dead ; but, owing 
to the general poverty of the people, 
this practice has been discontinued. 
When a woman is in labour, she is 
frequently surrounded by a host of peo- 
ple of both sexes, who pray for her. 
Their weddings are performed much in 
the fashion of the Tartars. When they 
cut their hair or nails, they collect them 
carefully, and haying added some bits of 
reed or grass, they bury them together ; 
a custom which is also observed among 
the Jews, at least with respect to their 
nails, which they burn, together with 
some parings of wood. Should a hair, 
or the paring of a nail, be found among 
any article of food, even when dry,— 
such as millet,—such food would ine- 
vitably be thrown away. Yass 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir, 
As a reader of your periodical work 
for many years, I hope you will 
indulge me by inserting the following 
observations on the character and suc- 
cess of Dr. Strouve’s method of imitating 
the different mineral waters of Germany 
and Bohemia, which he is now on the 
point of introducing into this country. 
Having been himself educated for the 
medical profession in his native coun- 
try (Saxony), Dr. Strouve had his atten- 
tion naturally drawn to the subject of 
the medicinal springs with which the 
whole of Germany abounds; and seve- 
ral years ago he fortuitously acquired 
the command of an extensive laberatory, 
which enabled him to gratify the desire 
he felt of instituting a systematic in- 
quiry into the chemical properties'of the 
most celebrated amongst’ ‘them. The 
result has been, that, after having de- 
veloped the principles of the natural 
combination, he conceived the possi- 
bility of producing the same artificially ; 
and thus extending the benefit of their 
use beyond the site of the spring itself, 
which could never be done by bottling 
the real water, on account of the loss of 
gas which attends that operation. 
With the concurrence and the active 
co-operation of the leading physicians 
of 
