32 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



we soon had plenty of professional occupation. M/" 

 companion, as acting physician, only cured the internal dis' 

 eases, whilst I occupied myself with surgical cases. 



Dohud Pasha was a native of Georgia, who had killed 

 his master, the former Pasha of Bagdad, and usurped his 

 dignity and place. As long as he paid the Porte the 

 required subsidies, he enjoyed the protection of the Sultan ; 

 but when he began to organize his troop?, by putting them 

 under the command of French ofiP.cers, he found himself in 

 dif^culties, as he had exhausted his treasury in the equip- 

 ment of his army. Even the expedient of manufacturing 

 base coin, did not suffice to raise the sum required to be sent 

 to Stambul. Besides that, he had ordered a Kapoojee-Bashi- 

 (dispatched by the Sultan, probably to bring him his head ) 

 to be murdered ; for that reason the Porte made war against 

 him, which ended in his captivity ; he was brought to Con- 

 stantinople, where he was pardoned, and I saw him there ia 

 the years 1836--1833, 



The first patient the Pasha requested me to attend, was 

 a peasant-lad, belonging to a silk-manufactory of the Pasha's- 

 whose case had been treated without success by almost all 

 the physicians of Bagdad. The lad was about twelve years 

 of age, and v/as tormented by insects in his ear, which caused 

 such pain that he was continually crying ; sometimes the 

 vermin crept out of his ear. After having tried some 

 injections with a syringe, containing substances calculated 

 to destroy insects, a few of them died, and I was now fully 

 satisfied as to the cause of his complaint, of which I had 

 doubted at the commencement. After the lapse of a few 

 days, I placed the patient in the rays of the sun at mid-day, 

 hTted the ear-lap in such a manner that the rays of the sun 

 could enter it, and then I discovered some black object, 

 which I extracted with a forceps, and found it to be a nest 

 of insects. Almost distracted v/ith joy, the boy fell on his 

 knees, and expressed his gratitude, for having been restored 

 to his sense of hearing. The nest was two-thirds of an inch 

 in length, and half-an-inch in diameter. I put it into a vial 

 filled with siyrits, and went with it, accompanied by the boy 



