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phyficians: Stanchio (Cous) and England afford us 
remarkable examples. I had an opportunity of 
making thefe obfervations, on the 9th of De- 
cember, when f was called to a confultarion to 
enquire into the difeafe of their chief brother 
phyfician, a Greek from Scio, who died within 
a few days of an Afthma convuliivum. .lie obfer- 
ved Itrictly the rule he had followed in his practice, 
to leave all to nature, without ufing any drugs, un- 
els diretetical. J. iteie are a! mod the only drugs 
prefcnbed by the phyficians in Smyrna, and the diet 
cona.LS m a fort of falling. They give for reafon, that 
the air is nounflnng, and fufficient to keep the fick 
m life; but this convinced me of my former experi- 
ence, that the moil fklutary rules may prove detri- 
mental when carried too far, and not applied to 
The phyficians here, in my time, 
'ere .Doctor Demem, who was above 80 years old 
was born in Scio, had travelled through England 
and Germany, prafofed nine years in St. Efprit the 
chief hofpital in Rome, and in his youth had acqui- 
red fome knowledge in botany, which he d?d not 
of & R C w’s S ,T tiUS h , ad j 1 knowledge 
r ilA J s aad Tourneforts fyllems. I gave him 
fome idea o( Dr. Linnaeus's famous Men? He™ 
Sed fS lnfa ™ Mio " s m *= W manner, as an 
&L f ;f l e . r ,’ '.' lca !’ able of attending battles and 
Dr 7 m- yct 1( :- ,0lced t0 hear of new expeditions, 
lie "inn " AV f lS t,C or)Cr op dle faculty iu Smyrna: 
S£ fCd t0 be a J™* g ’ hand fome, and natuklly! 
req-h e? PP pr °Y ,ded with “ learning as is 
ere ir b f ° r cnowm 8 common difeafes: lie had 
Which h°e P was° P IR i the peoples confldei we, towards 
T m T , “ lread y P rect 7 well advanced. 
Inch 1 mad ? my ilr fl jaunt on horfeback, 
t. e me no favourable opinion of die inha- 
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