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was hardly a country in Spanish America in which 

 he had not practised the healing art. With an un- 

 controllable antipathy to revolutions, it had been 

 his lot to pass the greater part of his life in coun- 

 tries most rife with them. After running before 

 them in Colombia, Peru, Chili, and Central Amer- 

 ica, where he had prescribed for Carrera when 

 the latter was pursuing his honest calling as a pig- 

 driver, unluckily he found himself in Salama 

 when Carrera came upon it with twelve hundred 

 Indians, and the cry of death to the whites. With 

 a garrison of but thirty soldiers and sixty citizens 

 capable of bearing arms, Doctor Fasnach was fain 

 to undertake the defence ; but, fortunately, Carrera 

 drew off his Indians, and Doctor Fasnet drew off 

 himself, came into Yucatan, and happened to settle 

 in Tekax, the only town in the state that could 

 get up a revolution. He was flying from it, and on 

 his way to Merida, when he was arrested by the 

 cura's illness. The doctor's long residence in trop- 

 ical countries had made him familiar with their 

 diseases, but his course of treatment would not 

 be considered legitimate by regular practitioners. 

 The cura's illness was cholera morbus, attended 

 with excessive swelling and inflammation of the 

 stomach and intestines. To reduce these, Doctor 

 F. had a sheep killed at the door, and the stomach 

 of the patient covered with flesh warm from the 

 animal, which in a very few minutes became taint- 

 ed and was taken off, and a new layer applied ; and 



