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Ulcers of long duration, nofelefs faces,"^and all the dlfguft- 
ing confequences of this malady are indeed occafionally vifible. 
But they are in very fmall number, and notorioufly the refult 
of extreme negligence, and of repeated infedion, where no 
means have been employed to exterminate it. 
It may truly be efteemed fortunate that this difeafe prevails 
with no violence in Egypt, for its only certain remedy, mer- 
cury, is there found much lefs efficacious than in the more 
temperate latitudes. Adminiftered even in fmaller dofes than 
in Europe, it is faid ptyalifm is either produced very early, or 
it pafles off with the faeces, without any vifible effedl. 
, A Frank practitioner of Kahira, accuftomed to the climate, 
ordered two drams of Mercury in thirty pills, with Gum 
Arabic and Syrup of Cichory, to be taken one a day. In this 
cafe, he declared, that the pills having been adminiftered 
during the firft feven days, and then, with the intermiffion of 
three days, two having been given each day for five days more, 
had produced no vifible efFe<3: on the difeafe, but pafled off by 
ftool. In other cafes he had known much fmaller dofes, in 
the fpace of two days, had caufed inflammation of the falivary 
glands, and he was obliged to abandon the ufe of it, and have 
recourfe to other means of cure. 
The natives, who are unacquainted with the ufe of mercury, 
and indeed of minerals in general as employed internally, are 
yet provided, as they fay, with efficacious remedies for the 
venereal difeafe. They ufe flax oil, frelh, as it is expreffed, 
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