THE SOURCH OF THE NILE. Bey 
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bone, about feven inches below the center of my knee-pan,. 
an itching refembling what follows the bite of a mufcheto. 
Upon {cratching, a fmall tumour appeared very like a 
mufcheto bite. The itching returned in about an hour af- 
terwards; and, being more intent upon my reading than. 
my leg, I fcratched it till the blood came. I foon after ob- 
ferved fomething like a black {pot, which had already rifen: 
confiderably above the furface of the fkin. All medicine 
proved ufelefs ; and the difeafe not being known at Cairo,. 
there was nothing for it but to- have recourfe to the only 
received manner of treating it in this-country.. About: 
three inches of the worm. was winded out upon apiece of. 
raw filk in the firft week, without pain or fever: but it was 
-broken afterwards through the carelef{nefs and rafhnefs of: 
the furgeon when changing a. poultice on-board ‘the fhip 
in which I'returned to France: a violent inflammation fol-. 
lowed ; the leg {welled fo.as to fcarce. leave appearance of - 
knee or ancle; the {kin, red and diitended, feemed glazed: 
likea mirror. The wound was now: healed, and difcharged. 
nothing’; and:there was every appearance of nrortification - 
coming on.. The great care and.attention procured me in- 
the lazaretto at Marfeilles, bya nation always foremoft in 
the acts:of. humanity to ftrangers, and the attention and. 
{kill of the furgeon, recovered me. from :this troublefome. 
eomplaint. . 
Firty-two days had ‘elapfed fince it firft begun ; tHirty=- 
five of which were fpent in the greateft agony. It fuppura- 
ted at laft ; and, by.enlarging the orifice, a.good quantity of 
matter was difcharged... I. had made coaftant ufe of bark,, 
both in fomentations and inwardly; but Idid not recover 
the_firength of my leg entirely till near a year after, by 
ufing 
