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he would not have desisted, until he had bitten 

 the piece out altogether. I submitted to this 

 operation, because, in the first place, Ohmed 

 Medina affirmed it to be the best remedy I could 

 possibly have to relieve the headache, and in the 

 next, I was determined to see some little of the 

 native practice of physic, and this was too good 

 an opportunity to let escape. The cow-dung, 

 which was very affectionately broken into small 

 pieces, agreeably to their ideas of my delicate 

 education, I very soon dispensed with, assuring 

 them, after a sniff or two, it had had a wonderfully 

 beneficial effect, and that I had no doubt, after my 

 scalp was well kneaded again by Adam Burrah, I 

 should be quite recovered. This was not actually the 

 case ; but as I took some of my own medicine, and 

 omitted my usual supper, by the next morning I 

 was fully restored to health, and as I gave all 

 credit, and a fee of four buttons, to Adam Burrah, 

 I established his medical character for ever after, 

 among his admiring countrymen. 



