J&O JSSTH0NI AN" BATHS. 



and became quite inflamed ; I felt the moft violent 

 pain, and could no longer open it. In this condition, 

 baron Siedelmann, who was with me, fent to Jurgenf- 

 burg for the bath-wife, whom he, and feveral other 

 perfons, affirmed to be expert in this fort of cures, by 

 the eafieft and fpeedieft method. The woman hap- 

 pened not to be at home, but another female doctor 

 was prefently found, who at all times, with red wool- 

 len threads, with powder of injection that had had cer- 

 tain words muttered over it (according to the prevail- 

 ing fuperftition of the country) performed miraculous 

 cures both on man and bean:. To her I refigned the 

 treatment of my eye. Without feeling any other pain 

 than what was already occasioned by the duft or fand 

 that had got in, and which raged continually, fhe in- 

 ftantly bored her tongue under the eye -lid into the 

 cavity of the eye, and turned it feveral times round the 

 ball. Notwithstanding the unufualnefs of the circum- 

 fcance, the introduction and detention of a foreign and 

 large piece of fiefh into the eye, yet I found the Strange 

 gueft by no means troublefome ; for the woman had the 

 art of expanding, and, confequently, of flattening her 

 tongue in fuch manner as that the prefliire could not be 

 very great on any one part. — The female practitioner 

 allured me that fhe had extracted fome grains of fand, 

 yet that fhe felt feveral more behind. The fame ope- 

 ration was now repeated for the fecondtime, and I im- 

 mediately felt a great alleviation of the fmart. The 

 rednefs went off, and my eye was well. Difgufting as 

 this operation may appear, yet a great value is fet upon 

 it by many in the bath ; to which I now return. 



When 



