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They have a mighty honour and efteem for Phyficians, for 
though they are of oj^inion, that they cannot with all their 
art prolong life, the period and term of it being fatal and 
abfolutely determin'd by God, yet they often confult them 
upon any violent ficknefs or pain, in order to make the time 
allotted them in this world more pleafant and ealy . It is ex- 
traordinary rare, that a natural Twr^ makes Phyfic his pro- 
feffion and ftudy. They who pradife it among them, when 
I was in Tmkej^ were for the moft part Greeks and je'ws^ who 
know nothmg of chymical Medicines, but follow the ulual 
methods , which they learnt in ^td) and S^atn^ the former ha- 
ving ftudyed in \radua^ and the latter in Salamanca^ where they 
pafs t for good Catholic ks. And I remember I met with a cer- 
tain Jtw Phylician, who had been a Capucine in Fortugai, Du- 
ring the tedious liege of CanSa, the Viz,ir^ what with melan- 
choly, and what with the ill air of the Canip, finding him- 
felf much indifpos'd fent for a Chnytian Phylician Stgmr Majja- 
lim^ a fubjed: of the Republick of Vmtce^ but married to a 
Grttk woman, by whom he had feveral children, who was 
our neighbour at Fera,an experienced able man,to come fpee • 
dily to him, and made him a prefent of about a thoufand 
Dollars, in order to fit himfelf for the voyage and bear the 
expenfe of it. By this worthy Gentlemans care, he recovered 
his health, and would not permit him to depart, till after the 
furrendryof that City, which might be about feven months 
after his arrival there, treating him in the mean while with 
all imaginable relped:. During our fliort ftay at Bm-Jia^ one 
of our fanix^aries accidentally difcouriing with a Turk about us , 
whom they knew to be Franks^ told him that there was a Phy- 
lician in the company, who had been lately at the Grand 
Signors Qomt ^alomkt with the Ambaffador, and was 
now upon his return from Conftainimfle to Smjrna^ where he 
lived. This prefently took vent, and the T?/rli thought that 
they had got a man among them, that could cure all difeafes 
infallibly ; for feveral immediately came to find us out in be- 
half of themfelves or their fick friends, and one of the moft 
confiderable men upon the place, defired the Do'^or to go, 
to his houle to vilit one of his" women fick in bed, who being 
permitted to feel her naked pulfe (for ufually they throw a 
peice of fine filk or curie over their womens wriils at fuch 
times) foon difcovered by that and other fymtoms and indi- 
cations of her diftemper, thatopenmga vein would prefently 
give 
