3H 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
CHAP. XXI. 
MEDICAL REMARKS. 
Pforophthahnia — Plague — Small-pox — Guinea worm — Scrophula 
— Syphilis — Bile — Tenia — Hernia — Hydrocele — Hemorrhoides 
and Fijlida — Apoplexy — Umbilical ruptures — Accouchemens — 
Hydrophobia — Phlebotomy — Remedies — Remarks — Circumcifion 
— Excijion. 
From the following detached remarks, the refult chiefly of 
perfonal obfervation, if the phyfiologift can derive any amufe- 
ment, or the traveller the fmalleft mitigation of his perfonal 
fufFerings, the purpofe of committing them to paper is an- 
fwered. 
If any medical profeffor fliould chance to advert to them, the 
writer is too confcious of the fuperficiality of his own know- 
lege not to perceive, that little fatisfadion will be derived. But 
perfuaded, that the art of healing, even at this day, abounds 
little lefs in experiments than in the age of one of its brighteft 
ornaments, who makes the confeflion, he is induced to believe, 
fcarcely any fadl relative to it, or any experiment, faithfully nar- 
rated, can be wholly deftitute of its ufe. 
Pforoph' 
