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which is certain to be attributed to him or his 

 medicines. To show how careful a person ought 

 to be, I shall relate a little incident that occurred 

 to me whilst we were staying at our last halting- 

 place. A woman came for some medicine for her 

 husband, who was said to be very ill indeed. I 

 could not go to see him as he lived ten or twelve 

 miles from the Kafilah. As the woman was very 

 importunate for medicine, which, having no know- 

 ledge of the case, I at first refused, to get rid of 

 her, I opened a package of tea, and giving her a 

 small spoonful, wrapt it up in a bit of old news- 

 paper, and sent her away, with directions how to 

 use it. The next morning, however, I found her, 

 making a terrible noise at the entrance of my hut, 

 saying that her husband was a great deal worse, 

 and all owing to the medicine he had taken. No 

 one could understand the simple character of the 

 remedy I had sent him, so all my explanations 

 went for nothing, until I happened to see, sticking 

 between her skin petticoat and her own black hide, 

 the identical paper I had put the medicine in ; and 

 snatching it from her waist, I found the tea still 

 in it, actually untouched. This evidence of the 

 woman's imposture was conclusive, and she was 

 taken away by those of her friends, who just before 

 were making loud demands of compensation, for the 

 injury they asserted I had done. 



In simple cases of temporary disordered functions, 

 or when medicine could be demonstrated to possess 



