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which with the iame finger he brought down as far as the Scrotum^ and this 
with the other hand, he opened at the place where the Stone was; after 
that he ftirched up the wound, dreiTed it with an Ointment, and had been \ 
fuccesfuU in the Cures he had undertaken!. The fame Chirurgeon told 
me that he had found one in the Bladder of a Child, a few days before I 
came, which he was to cut very fhortly. Bragging a httle then of the skill he 
had in curing flefhy Excrefcences upon the Privy parts, 1 told hiniithat whilft 
I was at Ro£etlo, a French Phyfician called Monfiear Saraz.in^Qmt& thefe Excref- The way of 
cences in this manner. He took two fticks, wherewith he leparated that curing Excref- 
fupcrfluous Flefli from the parts, fb ordering it, that nothing remained under ^^"^^5- 
the fticks, but juft what he was to cut ; then holding the two fticks very faft 
with one hand, Wxxh^Bifiori in the other, he cut clear off the fuperliuous 
fiefh that was under the fticks: That if he chanced to cut any Veffel, which 
made a great flux of blood, he had his Buttons ready upon Coals to ftop it : 
After that he fewed up the Scrotum, and dreffed the wound till it was per- 
fectly cured. This fwelling is cauled by a Carnofity that grows in the Scro- 
turn, under the Privy parts, with Veins by which it is nourifhed : And I told 
him that that Phyfician had alTured me, that at Alexandria he cut from a man 
a Wen on thefe parts that hung down to the very ground, and that having 
weighed it, it was twenty five pound weight. Seeing he had many Patietg;s 
come to him, becaule in Egjp, moft are troubled with that diftemper, fome 
more and fome lefs, I had the Curiofity to fee one of them, whofe Scroium 
reached almoft to his heels. Having informed the Chirurgeon Domemco of this 
way of Operation, he told me that he had one under hands troubled with 
the fame difeafe, whom he was to cure, but that though his own way was 
good, yet he would make tryal of the method of that Ugyftian Phyfician 
upon his Patient; and indeed, he propofed it unto him, ^ffuring him with 
all that there would remain a hanging skin as long as he lived, which would 
be very uneafie tohim, if he made his ordinary operation upon him; whereas 
ifhedid it the other way ( that I had taught him,^ he would be free from all 
inconvenience ; but the Patient would not admit of it, and told him that 
another Franck had heretofore propofed to treat him in that manner, but 
that he would not, and that he had rather have the trouble of that Skin, and 
run no risk, than to be rid of it with the danger of his life. The Patient was 
a man above five and fifty years of Age ; and to cure him, Domenico made an 
incifion crofs- ways in his Scrotum, and then ftript that fuperfluous flefti which 
he cut off ; after that he ftitched up the skin, leaving onely a little place 
open, to which he applied his Medicines : this piece of flefh was bigger than 
ones Fift, and had a great many little veins. Whilft that operation was per- 
forming, the old man finoaked a Pipe of Tobacco, and made no noile; onely 
he oftentimes recommended himfelf to Mahomet, whilft the by ftanders prayed 
for him : but the Chirurgeon that did the operation was (b poor that he had 
not fo much as a Button or adual cautery. 
Wednefday the ninth of Jz/// in the Evening, the Officer of the Cuftom-houfe 
came to demand his dues from our Caravan, and took my Sword out of my 
Tenir, which he left in the hands of the Ker'van-BaJJa, pretending a Ttajhe 
from me as being a Franck; but.having fpoken to my Moucre, he went and 
brought back my Sword. 
Next day a Thief ftole the DoUman or long Coat of one of our Company ; ^ -pi^jef^ 
but after a very bold, and in fome manner pleafant way. We ftayed and 
lay at the houfe of a Phyfician who was a Franck, and being afleep in the cool 
upon a Maftahe of his Court, about an hour before day a nimble Rogue cun- ' 
ningly opened the Gate, and came fbftly to the Dolman which was near to 
him it belonged to ; he awakening at the noife the Thief made in emptying 
his Pockets, was not at all ftartled, on the contrary thinking it was his man, 
he twice called him by his Name ; at which our Thief who, (as I think,) had 
no defign to carry off the DoUman, bur onely what was in the Pockets, ima- 
gining that he was difcovered, whipt away DoUman and all. In the mean 
time the onely remedy was not to talk of it ; for if the Sousba^ia hdià come to 
know it, he would have come to the Houle and feizedall that he found in it, 
protefting that there were no Thieves in the Town, and that the Theft muft 
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