Part I. Travels into the L e v a n t. 
Timber almoft Square, but fomwhat longer than broad: This piece of Wood 
they call Eltf, and on one of the lides of it there is a f^j on another (0 on 
the third, {dgim)?Li\^ on the fourth, Q)a) but nothing on the ends. He that 
demands the refponfe, roles it three times, and at each time they obferve the 
JLetter that turns up, then they look into a Book which they call F.?/, that's 
to fay a Fortune-book, what thefe three Letters put together h'gnifie; and 
that is the Refponfe. 
CHAP. XXVIL 
Of the Difeafesof the Turks^ and their Remedies, 
THe Turks are long Liv'd, little fubjed to Difeafes, and we have many 
dangerous Diftempers that are not known amongft them^ as the Stom, J^^^ Tnrts 
and many more. I beleive this great Healthfulnefs proceeds partly fi'om ^^j"^^ 
their frequent Bathings, and partly from their Temperance m eating procmh. ' 
and drinking i for they eat moderately, and feed not upon fo many different 
things as Chrlflians do : for the molt part they make no Debauches in Wine, The Turks 
and ufe Exercifes ; fo that they have no Phyficiam ; and perhaps that may be S'^'^*^^- 
onecaufeof their Health ajid long Life too. When they are fick, they com- who are the 
raonly make ufe of Chrijiian, or Jewtjh Phyficians ; and when there are none to P'^yfi'^'ans^ a- 
be found, they have their recourfe to Rcm^ado^s, amongft whom there are al- Xurks 
ways fome Phyfcians^ that learn their Skill atthccoft of many. Befldes that, 
the Turks have fome Receipts that all know, which fomtimes fucceed, and they 
often enough make ufe of them. They very willingly ufe Hony in their Me- The Medicl- 
dicines. They are commonly Reacgados that let them Blood, though there are î!5^ the 
Turks that can do it very well, but with Butcherly Launcets ^ nay, fome with 
fuch Fleems as they ufe for Horfcs in Ciiriflendom, and others with fharp- 
pointed Canes. When they are troubled with a pain in the Head, they Sca- 
rifie the place where the Pain is ; and having let out a pretty quantity of Blood, ^^'^^ Turks 
they put a little Cotton to the Wound, and fo flop it j or otherwise they give i^^^^^ 
themfelves five or fix little Cuts in the Fore-head. They make alfo great ufe of '"^* 
Fire; asIfavvaMan who having the I-îead-ach, caufed a red-hot Iron to be ^'ire ufed 
applied above his Ear to the place of the Pain, which actually feared it: then ^''^ 
he clap'd a little Cotton upon the Place, and fo was Cured. And for all Difeafes verai oSeft 
in feveral Members, they apply to them a large Match, or piece of Stuff or pers. ' 
Cloath twifted and well Lighted, and patiently fufFer the pain till the Match 
goes out of it felf. And at Co/jjlantinople a Turk told me that he knew one who 
having a RheHmatifm, or feme fuch Diflemper in the region of his Reins, had 
a mind to apply a burning Match to that part, but that fearing it would hurt 
him ; the reft Laughed at him ; fo that having at length refolved, and bending 
himfelf downward, that he might the more conveniently apply the Match to 
his Reins, he clap'd it to, and fuffered the Pain fo long and with fo much Pa- 
tience, that he burn'd a Nerve, and when he had a mind to raife himfelf up- 
right again, he could not, but continued ever after bent down in that man- 
ner. In fhort, it is no Country for Phyflcians to get Eftatcs in, becaufe as I 
havefaid, they are fubjed to few Difeafes, and befides are but very bad Pay- 
mafters to thofe that Cure them : and if the Phyficians fhould prove unfuccefs- 
ful, and the Patient Die, they are fo far from Paying them, that they put them 
many times to Trouble, and fomtimes to Charges, accufing them of having Phyficians 
Killed the Patient : as if the Life and Death of Men were in the hands of Phy- arc in danger 
ficians, and not of God. But let us proceed to their Religion. amongft the 
1 urks. 
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