12 TniRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



this process the patient was saved. On the day of the re- 

 covery of the bishop, I had an opportunity to cure another 

 patient, which occasioned a great sensation. The sexton of 

 the patriarch was troubled with a tertian-ague. It was the 

 fever day, and the patient complained of feeling dizzy, want 

 of appetite, a bitter taste in his mouth ; he looked very ill, 

 and the white of his eyes was rather of a yellow colour. 

 I ordered him an emetic, he vomited, and a long tape-worm 

 was expelled, which I drew until it broke. On giving him 

 a second dose of solution of tartar-emetic, it operated, and 

 caused the ejection of the rest of the worm by an evacuation. 

 I ordered the pieces of the ejected worm to be washed. I 

 measured them afterwards, and they were fifty-two yards 

 long. I found among them three heads, and I concluded 

 that three tape-worms were there, consequently the denomina- 

 tion of solitaris is a wrong one. It was the broad tape- 

 worm. I kept the pieces in spirit ; but it was no extra- 

 ordinary novelty for those people, as the disease of the tape- 

 worm is very common on the Lebanon. Whilst I was measur- 

 ing the tape-worm, the old patriarch Hanna stepped in, 

 and asked me, with a smile, if I knew Bonaparte ? I answer- 

 ed that I knew him by name only. He continued ; people 

 arriving just now from Tripoli, bring the news, that Bona- 

 parte has died in the English prison. Then that great 

 genius has coma to an end, said I, whose memory will^for 

 ever be revered in France ! 



The inhabitants of the Lebanon are of opinion that the 

 frequent disease of tape-worm in their country is caused 

 by their eating raw flesh, and afterwards drinking 

 brandy immoderately, which may indeed be considered as 

 a secondary cause. I ascribe the principal cause of the 

 frequent appearance of this disease on the Lebanon, to the 

 fact, that the poor people of that country, who are mostly 

 affected with it, are living in rooms where they are breeding 

 silk worms, also sleeping in the same apartments, and breath- 

 ing the noxious air of the rotten substances and putrefied 

 mulberry leaves which serve as food to these worms. I 

 cherish this opinion so much the more, as the root of the 



