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called miUjem in the Turkifh language. Fruits have 
not been fo plenty, or of fuch a good quality as 
ufual : few fevers of the intermittent kind, but not fo 
regular as ufual in their fymptoms ; for they were 
feldom attended with any head-ach, the tongue not 
much charg’d, and the urine feldom made any fedi- 
ment of the lateritious kind ; and if they were not 
taken in time, a yellow jaundice came upon them the 
dxth or feventh day ; and in the beginning of the 
fever, the patient feldom vomited bile as ulual, but 
rather a pituitous matter. 
I have the honour of being, 
S I R, 
Conftantinople, 0 &. 29, 
1750. 
Your mod: obedient, and 
mod: obliged humble fervant, 
Mordach Mackenzie. 
Dr. Mackenzie to Dr. Mead. 
S I R, 
itead March 19, 
1752. 
T HE lad:, which I had the honour of 
writing you, accompanying fome 
medals and intaglio's, went by the Thames in Octo- 
ber I75”0. I have fent by the Bofphorus, Capt. Ken- 
nard, a fmall box, with full direction, containing 50 
medals, four intaglia’s, one Batilidian amulet, or 
TfotpvKAK^ejov , with 20AOMON snzoN cut upon it. He 
has 
