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and however unfkilful the accoucheufes may be imagined, few 
accidents have place. 
The women of Fur, in like manner, are aflifted by their own 
fex, and are feldom long confined : yet nature feems to render 
child-bearing more difficult to them than to the Egyptians, and 
their care after delivery is not always fuch as to prevent both the 
mother and the child from fuffering. I have known feveral in- 
ftances where cold caught after the accident has proved of ferious 
confequences to the mother. 
Hydrophobia, 
The rabies can'ina^ or hydrophobia, is either very unufual or 
entirely unknown both in Egypt and Fur. I never heard of 
an.inftance of it in either country, which appears not entirely 
unworthy of remark, not only as multitudes of dogs are found 
in each, which in many inftances can have no accefs to water, 
to the want of which was once vulgarly attributed that dreadful 
malady, but as one fadt more in the feries which muft finally 
condud us to its caufe. 
Idea of Orientals refpe5iing remedies, 
' '■ Among the inhabitants of Egypt and Africa the claflification 
of remedies is remarkably fimple. They have only two grand 
dlvifions^ c^^Ji^ refrigerants, and jt^a. heating medicines. They 
efteem 
