EGYPT, AND SYRIA. 331 
Shankers, &c. externally, are repeatedly wafhed with foap and 
water, and then kept covered with the red earth above men- 
tioned. I never faw the efFedt, but the cure is faid to be 
rapid. 
In Dar-Fur I have not obferved the venereal difeafe more 
formidable than in Egypt. I faw a few individuals who were 
mutilated in the organs of generation by its effeds. 
The old women, who are phyficians in ordinary, ufe a decoc- 
tion of certain roots, of which I never came at the knowlege, 
infufed in bou%a^ which appear to operate fuccefsfully. Gleets 
are frequent ; and continued indulgence produces early debility 
and impotence. 
The great advantages of the etuves, or warm baths, is evident 
in very many inftances in Kahira. But it is difficult to admit 
Savary's aflertion (vol. i. p. 108) in its full extent, viz. that they 
operate as a radical cure of the venereal difeafe. They doubt- 
lefs affuage many of its graver fymptoms. 
In no country are pulmonary difeafes more rare than in 
Egypt, which could not happen if the baths had any tendency 
to caufe them. 
Leprofy, 
The leprofy is more frequent in Syria than in Egypt. It 
exifts however in the latter country, with all its concomitants 
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