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attended me every morning with their slaves and children affected 
with dropsy, crawcraws, yaws, fever, bowel complaints, &c. and 
expressed the most unbounded thanks for the medicine and 
advice they received. 
At the King's particular request, 1 attended his own brother, 
the heir apparent, who had oederaatous feet : by the use of fric- 
tion, a roller, and an alterative course of calomel, and diuretics, 
he soon recovered. 
The King's uncle, heir to the crown after the brother, was 
severely tormented with stricture of the urethra ; he could only pass 
urine, drop by drop; three weeks passing the catheter, enabled 
him to make it in a full stream ; when he immediately requested 
some powerfully stimulating medicine to correct impotency, which 
it was not in my power to grant. 
The captain whose office it is to drown any of the King's 
family who have offended, had an ulcer two inches long in the 
palate bone; when he drank, part of the fluid passed out of his 
nose, and his speech was very unintelligible; the sides of the open- 
ing were scarified, and the granulations touched every third or 
fourth day with lunar caustic until they united ; he got well in one 
month. 
The only unfortunate case I attended, was our guide Quamina 
Bwa; shortly after we arrived in Coomassie he was attacked 
with remittent fever ; by the use of febrifuge medicines, the cold 
bath, bark, &c. he recovered, and was able to attend his usual 
duty of waiting on us, when we visited the king; he went into 
the country, and I did not see him for six weeks ; at the end of 
that time, he sent for me, and I found him labouring under a 
severe bilious dysentery, and liver complaint. I was unable to 
prevent the formation of matter in his liver ; it formed a large 
swelling with distinct fluctuation, and as he hesitated to have it 
