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' dice at fet times before the People, which 

 they would do fo long, till they were giddy 

 by this fwift circular Motion^ and fell down 

 inaSwound, and then oftentimes upon their 



* recovery from fuch Trances, they pretend- 

 ed to Revelation. The Church-Men are not 

 very kind to his Memory, looking upon him 

 as a Man of little or no Religion ; and they 

 give out, that if he had lived, he would 

 have forbid their calling to Prayers from the 

 Spires of their Mofchs, and hanging out 

 Lamps i both which they look upon as So- 

 lema and Eflential to the exercife of Reli- 

 gion ^ but he as the efFedt of Biggotry and 

 Superftition. 



The./ have a mighty Honour and Efteem 

 for Phyficians, for though they are of Opi- 

 nion, that they cannot with all their Art 

 prolong Life, the Period and Term of it be- 

 ing Fatal, and abfolutely determined by God, 

 yet they often confult them upon any vio- 

 lent Sicknefs or Pain, in order to make the 

 time allotted them in this World more plea- 

 fant and eafie. It is extraordinary rare,, 

 that a natural Turk, makes Phyfick his Pro- 

 feffion and Study. They who pra^ice it a- 

 ^ mong them, when I was in Turky^ were for 

 the moffc part Greeks and Jews^ who knov/ no- 

 thing of Chymical Medicines, but follow the 

 ufual Methods, which they learnt in Italy 

 ^hd Spain^ the former having ftudied in P^- 

 dua^ and the latter in, SaUynarwa^ where they 

 pafs for good^ catholkh. And I remember I 

 met with a certain Jew Phyfician, who had 

 been a Capuchinq in Portugal. During the te- 

 cjiou? Siege of Candia^ the Fiz.ir^ what with the 



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