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and wliere he is so far from meeting that praisc- 

 wortiiy condescension which, with us, renders the 

 employment of a physician the easiest and the hap- 

 piest of professions. I knew that, with the excep- 

 tion of some peculiar maladies, the symptoms of 

 which are evident in the exterior, the Arabs and the 

 Egyptians acknowledge but Ihree sources, or rather 

 three sorts of disease ; the bile, saffra ; the blood, 

 deni ; and the Cold, herd. It is useless to enter 

 into any other explication with them, and above 

 all, to attempt to reason. You have only to feel 

 their pulse in silence, as they in silence hold it out 

 io you ; and after some mute reflections, often very 

 perplexing, to pronounce one of these three words 

 characteristic of their diseases. If you guess right, 

 exclamations on your profound skill are a mark of 

 admiration which gives you new life. If, on the 

 Contrary, you are not successful in this species of 

 divination, a negative motion of the head, which 

 accompanies a countenance on which contempt is 

 depicted, is equivalent to these words : " Go, take 

 '* thyself off; thou art an ignorant fellow." 



Distinctions so little complicated in practical 

 medicine, are very happily not extremely difficult 

 to hit. The appearance of the consult er almost 

 always carries an exact indication. A yellow com- 

 plexion denotes hile ; red announces blood\ and pale 

 becomes the sign oicoJd. Into these three divisions 



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