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filthy ulcers, far more dangerous than a pain in 

 the stomach. A man attacked with a disease in 

 his lungs, was covered with exterior sores ; and a 

 dropsical man who came to me for advice, carried, 

 to no purpose, on his helly, more than fifty 

 wounds, made by fiery cauterizations of the size 

 of a crown-piece. 



It is not astonishing that the Egyptians, with 

 their three divisions of diseases, should frequently 

 deceiv(2 themselves respecting the nature of those 

 with which they are affected. An officer of the 

 Mamelucs, a young and handsome man, came to 

 consult me. He was so infected with that dread- 

 ful disorder so generally diffused over these coun- 

 tries, and which poisons the very sources of life, 

 that he had lost almost entirely the power of pro- 

 pagating his species. His situation was horrible. 

 I gave him to understand what his malady was, but 

 he was very much displeased at it ; he maintained 

 that I deceived myself, and that it was nothing 

 else but bile. 



Sometimes the practice of physic procured me 

 very extraordinary revelations and proposals. I 

 received a visit from a rich man of Siout. He drew 

 me aside in a very mysterious manner. He bore 

 impatiently the presence of my interpreter, to 

 which, however, it was necessary he should submit. 



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