TUIKTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 1 7 



perceived that my feet began to become flexible, and so I 

 continued the operation, and succeeded so far as to be able 

 to put on my pantaloons and boots, and walk slowly towards 

 my abode. There I arrived very late, ordered a warm bath 

 to be prepared, and after half-an-hour's bathing went to 

 bed, having previously drunk a glass of punch prepared 

 with tea, which produced a good effect, and thus I fell 

 asleep. In the morning, when I awoke, .my legs were 

 restored to their former activity. 



At the same period, while I was private physician to 

 the English consul at Tripoli, there happened an ex- 

 traordinary case. An organic defect of a young woman 

 in labor required a Ca-sarian operation to be made on her 

 body, and I was appointed to perform it ; but the Greek 

 bishop refused to give his consent thereto, because that 

 operation was an uncommon one, and I could not guarantee 

 her life. Even after the death of the poor woman, wife 

 of Georgius Jani, the bishop again opposed the operation, by 

 which the infant might have been saved. I and my friends, 

 the twin brothers Katzifliss (scarcely twenty years of age, one 

 of whom was Austrian, the other English consul ) often 

 regretted the circumstance. At Bagdad there happened 

 the following case : — the wife of an Armenian curate 

 having been for eight months with child, had died in 

 consequence of a scald. On both sides of the belly of 

 the deceased a certain motion was visible for a long time, 

 which caused some people to believe that she was about 

 to bring forth twins, which they wished to save. They 

 sent for me, but, to my grief, they came when all assis- 

 tance was too late. I cite this unhappy accident of the 

 poor woman, that it my serve as an example to those 

 people who deal in spirits and other combustible articles, 

 and as a warning to them to be cautious in their manage- 

 ment The above-mentioned w,oman went upstairs late in 

 the night, with a candle in her hand, and entered a room, to 

 pour some brandy from a damejane ( a large glass jar, cover- 

 ed with straw ). Keeping the light too near to the spirits, 

 they caught fire. Instead of covering the mouth of the 



