vcr, which,if it kill nor, is followed with the Jaunders for the 
remaindep^f the I^atients life: And,that after the end of March 
the wind changeth, blowing for therooft part from the Weft or 
Southweftj and being fomecimes fa hot and fufFocating , that ir 
takes away refpiration : whence the ArabiaHs^gw^ it the name 
EUSmiel\ that is , a Wind of poyfon- And, which feems very 
flrange, if one take an arm oraleg^ orany other part of the 
body, that hath been newly ftifled by chat fufFocating wind, it 
remains in the hand like Greale,and as if the body had been dead 
a, month before. The fame kind of Air is, according to this Au- 
thor, about Mouffet and Bagdat ; concerning which he relates, 
that^travelling once upon the road from IJpAhan to Bagdat , he 
had been ftifled, if he had not been in the company of fome A- 
TabimMtrchdiUtsi Butthefe, as fooD as they perceived this 
wind coming, prefently made hii« light from his Beaft , and 
throw himfclf, together with them » flat upon the ground on 
their bellies, covering themfelves well with their Cloaks. In 
which condition having remained for half aa hour , and on 
milch ado faved c hemfelves from being fufFocated^thcy rofe up, 
finding their Horfes muck-vvet all over, and fo faint, that they 
were not able to carry their Ridm. Bur, when men are upon 
fome River, thouglithe fame wind do blow in the fame feafon, 
it doth no harm, though people were ftark naked. Hefaithfur* 
«^her,that fometimes the blaft is fo hot, that it burns as if Light- 
ning had pafied. 
5. That all the precious Oyls , Confits and Unguents , that 
GUr Author had been prefented with by the Great Duke of T(?/- 
cany^Axd^ when he came into thofe hot Countries,boyl from the 
heat reigning there , and even break the bottles that contained 
them: And particularly^ thatof 24boxesof Treacle,that were 
ftft fcrevved, not oneefcaped whofe bottom was not burft out. 
4. That in Pd-r/?^ few Children have the fmall Pox, but,in- 
ftead thereof, moft of them are troubled with the Scurff oa the 
head, till they^re i o or r 2 years old. 
S- That the Ferjians know nothing of the Gout or Stone ; 
only the Armenians^ w ho drink more wine than water, are trou- 
bled with the latter of thofe two difeafes. 
6. That ihejP^^4»i,efpecially the better fors of thero,arefa^ 
lefs fubjeft to ficknefs^than the Europeans^btcdiU^e they fiiil not 
in Spring to take inwardly a decofiion of the wood of CbiMj 
which 
