6 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



earthquake, which caused so many disasters ; the vil!"ag«^ 

 called Jisershol, on the river (between Latachia and 

 Aleppo ), was entirely destroyed. Following the Syrian 

 coast, I crossed Latachia, Tripoli, Beyrout, Seida, Sur, Acre, 

 Nazareth, Jerusalen], and Bethlehem, and visited the Holy 

 Sepulchre, &;c., in the autumn of the year 1819. From Jafifa 

 I embarked for Damietta and went up the Nile as far as 

 Cairo. At that period an Armenian from Tocat, named 

 Giovanni Bozzari, enjoyed the title of First Physician, 

 under the superintendence of whom I obtained employment in 

 the fortress. Giovanni Bozzari pursued his medical studies at 

 Constantinople, in the house of a Venetian doctor named 

 Bozzari. Availing himself of the name of his professor, 

 when in Egypt, Mahomed Ali, at that time a Binbashi 

 ( chief of 1,000 men ), protected him, as he had been welh 

 advised by Bozzari when he applied for his assistance. 

 Subsequently, when Mahomed AH was promoted to the dig- 

 nity of a Pasha, Bozzari was invested with the title of privy 

 counsellor, and occupied at the same, time the post of physi-- 

 cian in ordinary : Cui fortuna favet, sponsa petita manet ! 



At that period ( 1820 — 1821) Mahomed' Ali despatch- 

 ed an army to Upper Egypt, under the command of his 

 second son, Ismail Pasha ; his elder son, Tossoon Pasha, 

 having died by the plague some years previous. I was one 

 of the first among the physicians engaged for that expedi- 

 tion ; but whilst they were preparing for the march, the 

 plague broke out, which induced me to give up that fati- 

 guing and perilous journey, cede my post to another, and 

 go back to Syria. Some time after, I learned that the ex- 

 pedition miscarried, that none of those ten or twelve physi- 

 cians who accompanied the army had returned, and that* 

 Ismail Pasha himself had been massacred. 



At Cairo I was so fortunate as to be very successful in 

 my cures. Among others, 1 attended a merchant of Con- 

 stantinople, a Greek, who was greatly afflicted with the 

 stone during a period of forty years, so that he was will- 

 ing to undergo an operation. I cured him of his complaint 

 by administering to him ( for a period of six wcsks ) diluted 



