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(hied. Many vegetables in this manner are con- 

 sidered to be most efficacious in this disease, 

 without the least claim to it, farther, than being 

 gentle aperients and generally, in consequence, 

 having a beneficial influence upon the human 

 frame. On many such mistaken cases, the effect 

 of blue pill was most wonderful, and it was a 

 general observation with the medical officers of the 

 Embassy, the remarkable efficiency of this remedy 

 upon the Abyssinian human system, when, if its 

 cause had been examined into, it would have been 

 found that its simple alterative effects, producing a 

 healthy reaction, was all that was required to 

 establish a healing process very rapidly in the 

 numerous cases of common ulcers, that were pre- 

 scribed for under the impression that they pro- 

 ceeded from one sole cause : that a universal 

 syphilitic taint characterized the whole population 

 of Shoa. 



The Abyssinians, immoral as they appear to be, 

 are much more simple than depraved. It is the 

 virtuous confidence of people afflicted with the 

 reputed complaint, conscious of having no improper 

 cause to attribute it to, and still, in their ignorance, 

 believing it to be syphilis, which has given support 

 to the general opinion among them of its extremely 

 contagious character, and which has occasioned 

 that apparent shamelessness with wdiich this dis- 

 reputable and distressing disease is spoken of by all 

 classes and conditions. 



