202 Travels into theh ey ant. Part I. 
CHAP. LXXXI. 
Of the Remedies ufed by the Moors in 
their Sichpejjes, 
i^Tp H E Moors make no great deal ado about Phyficking when they are Sick, 
I and they never think of fending for a Doétor, not only becaufe it 
would coft them Money, but alfo becaue they look upon it as a Sin to make ufe 
ofaPhyfician, admitting of none other but God Almighty j they make ufe of 
very Plain Receipts. And one day I faw a Moor^^N\[o had his Face all bruifed and 
broken, with blows of a Cudgel, as if he had been cut with a Sword , apply 
toit On myprefence) Gun-powder, with Gotten over it j and when I faw 
him again two days after,no marks of it appeared. When they are ftung by a 
Scorpion, they eat a Raddifh, and then all their apprehenfion of danger is over. 
They let blood in the Fore-head, to make them more watchful; and fome, to 
ling in cure their fore Eyes. I have feen mzny Barberim let blood in the Fore-head, 
• for a pain in the Head, and for fore Eyes^ they bind a Turban about the 
Neck, but hot fo ftreight as to ftrangle them, then he who lets Blood, feels 
for the Vein in the Fore-head, which being found, he puts the cutting end of 
aRafor upon it, and giving the Rafor a philip, opens the Vein very neatly, 
and eafily flops it again after it hath bled a good deal, with a little Gotten or 
fome fuch thing, nay, fomctimes with Gamels dung. 
CHAP. LXXXII. 
Of the Money and Weights of Mgyçt. 
A Purfc. TN o£gyft, they reckon Money by Purfes. A Purfe confifts of Five and 
X twenty thoufand Maidins^ which make an Hundred fifty feven Piafires Ryals, 
and nineteen Maidins, or Eight hundred thirty three Boqmlls^ and ten Maidins. 
The Turkilh Chequm, which they call Scherif^ is worth feventy Maidins, and 
the Venetian, feventy five. The Piaftres are worth Thirty three Maidinsy the 
Boquelles, thirty. They are by corruption fo called, for their name is Abon 
Kelb, that is to fay, that hath a Dog, becaufe on one fide of it there is a 
Lyon, which they take for a Dog ; nay, the Jews call them in Spanifli Pfrm. 
Maidin. They have other pieces of Money befides. The Maidin is of Silver, about 
thebignefsof a French Double, but very thin, with fome Arabick Gharadters 
upon it Î it is worth two Afpres and a half, which is fomewhat more than three 
Half- pence Englifli. In a Maidin, there are eight Forles or Bulbes, which are 
Forks. pieces of Gopper, as big as French Doubles, but thicker, and are in value 
(^intal. fomewhat lefs than an Englilh Farthing ; there are half Forles alfo. 
Rotte. The Weights of Caire^ are as at Conftantinofle , the Qnimd , contains 
Quirat. j^q^ Rottes, the Rotte 12. Ounces, the Ounce 12. Drachms, the Drachm 15. 
Oque Q^irdts, the Qnirat 4. Grains ; the Medical, a Drachm and a half, the Oqnt, 
400. Drachms, fo that the Oqne contains three Rottes, two ninths lefs. 
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