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water ; a fowl in course of time : no fish, butter, eggs, or 

 beef for two years on pain of death. Mohamad's father 

 had skill in the cure, and the above is his prescription. 

 Safura is thus a disease per se ; it is common in Man- 

 yuema, and makes me in a measure content to wait for 

 my medicines ; from the description, inspissated bile seems 

 to be the agent of blocking up the gall-duct and duodenum 

 and the clay or earth may be nature trying to clear it away : 

 the clay appears unchanged in the stools, and in large 

 quantity. A Banyamwezi carrier, who bore an enormous 

 load of copper, is now by safura scarcely able to walk ; he 

 took it at Lualaba where food is abundant, and he is con- 

 tented with his lot. Squeeze a finger-nail, and if no blood 

 appears beneath it, safura is the cause of the bloodlessness. 



