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melancholy, and what with the ill Air of the 

 Camp, finding himfelf much indifpos'd, fent 

 for a Chrifiian Phyfician Signior Maffalins^ a 

 fub jeft of the Republick of Venice^ but Mar- 

 ried to a Gneli Woman, by whom he had fc- 

 veral Children, who was our Neighbour at 

 Per^jan experienced able Man, tocomefpeedi- 

 ly to him, and made him a Prefent of about a 

 thoufand Dollars, in order to fit himfelf for 

 the Voyage and bear the expence of it. By 

 this worthy Gentleman's Care, he recovered 

 liis Health, and would not permit him to de- 

 part, till after the furrendry of that City, 

 which might be about feven Months after his 

 Arrival there , treating him in the meaa 

 while with all imaginable Refpeft. EXiring 

 our ftiort ftay at Burfia^ one of our Janiz,aries 

 accidentally difcourfing with a Turk about us, 

 whom they knew to be Franks ^ told him that 

 there was a Phyfician in the Company, who 

 had beeu lately at the Grand Sigmor'^s Court 

 at Salorilki v^ith the Englijl) Ambaffador, and 

 was now upon his return from ConfiantinofU 

 to Smyrna^ where he lived. This prefently 

 took vent, and the Turks thought that they 

 had got a Man among them, that could Cure 

 all Difeafes Infallibly j for feveral immedi- 

 ately came to find us out in behalf of them- 

 felves or their Sick Friends, and one of the 

 moft confiderable Men upon the Place, de- 

 lir'd the Doftor to go to his Houfe to vifit 

 one of his Women Sick in Bed, who being 

 permitted to feel her naked Pulfe (for ufu- 

 ally they throw a piece of fine Silk or Curl 

 over their Womens Wrifts at fuch times) foou 

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