40iJ Regeneration of Medicine in Egypt. [May, 



tives, and proportionate blood-lettings are in general the chief remedies 

 that are suited for Upper and Middle Egypt, for the cure of sporadic 

 diseases that occur there, and in Lower Egypt, a compound method, 

 consisting of purgatives, diaphoretics, warm baths, anthelmintics, 

 emetics, tonics, and antiseptics. 



Such are the facts that indicate the actual state of Medical science in 

 Egypt ; and we consider that they demonstrate a conclusion, which 

 we repute undoubted, as well relative to this particular subject, as to 

 every other branch of innovation actually attempted in that country, 

 viz. that they are as yet but a rough sketch, which cannot perhaps be 

 brought to perfection but after a long period of time, when the Re- 

 former Prince who has commenced the undertaking, and his 

 magnanimous son, Ibrahoi Pacha,* renowned as well for his rare 

 talent for governing as for his military qualities — when both, we say, 

 having laid aside thoughts of war, by which they have been hitherto 

 distracted, will exclusively dedicate their cares to the internal regime 

 of the State, proud one day of having added a family to the illustrious 

 circle of civilized nations. 



AitT. VII. — Note on the dissection of the Arctonix Collaris, or Sand 

 Hog. By George Evans, Esq. late Curator to the Asiatic Society. 



This curious little animal, for some time a living inmate of the 

 Society's Rooms, having died suddenly on the night of the 20th January, 

 apparently from the effects of cold, the following particulars of its dis- 

 section are offered to the notice of the Society. 



In the length of the body it measured one foot, the head from the 

 snout to the occiput five inches, and the tail, which is thin, straight, and 

 pendulous, somewhat exceeded five inches. 



The animal proved to be a young female, and had barely completed 

 its second dentition. The only peculiarity worthy of notice, beyond 

 what is already known and received, as far as regards its external or- 

 ganization, is a caudal pouch directly under the origin of the tail (some- 

 thing similar to what is found in the Badger,) but quite distinct from, 

 and wholly unconnected with, the anus or genital organs. The sac is 

 formed by duplicate folds of the common integuments, having a lining 

 of naked membrane, secreting a brown unctuous matter, not unlike 

 cerumen, or wax of the ear ; the use of this peculiar structure and se- 



* Eldest son of the Viceroy, born in Macedon, three miles from Cavella— a son 

 unmatched in his obedience to his father. 



