33* TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
from the feed. A Greek, who was in the fervice of Murad 
Bey as a mariner, [gakongi^) and who was known to me in 
Kahira, had been infeded, and on applying to a Frank phyfi- 
cian, was told that it would be necefTary immediately to ufe 
mercurials. The man was not inclined to confinement or to 
regimen, and went to a Copt at Jize, who profefTed to relieve 
fhe fick. This man ordered him to take two coffee-cups of 
flax oil every morning- falling, and directed no regimen, but 
that of keeping himfelf warm. The Greek obferved none, for 
he continued freely the ufe of aqua vita, and even facrificed to 
Venus, (for perfons who have been once infedled and fully 
cured, are, it is faid, in no fear of reinfection,) and was often in 
the heat of the fun. He had continued this method for two 
months, when a general eruption took place over his body, 
but chiefly about the head and glands of the throat. In this 
condition I faw him. His Efculapius ordered him to cover the 
puftules of his face with a kind of red earth, found in fome 
parts of Egypt. They gradually became dry, and came off 
without leaving any mark. At the end of the third month 
from the time he had applied to the Copt, and one month after 
the appearance of the eruption, the man was in perfect health, 
and the fkin had completely recovered its tone and polifh. 
In the cure of the fimple gonorrhea, a decodtion of mallows 
is commonly ufed, and they feem to place their chief confi- 
dence in diuretics. I never heard of an injedion, but from 
thofe who were acquainted with European pradice. Certain 
herbs and roots macerated, are applied locally in cafe of inflam- 
mation and tenfion (chordee). 
Shankers 
