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be attributed as much to dirt and neglect as to any other 
cause. 
The Bedouins are acquainted with but few medicines. 
The Desert yields some valuable simples, which are, how- 
ever, rarely used. Dr. Sandwith, hearing from Sattum, 
that the Arabs had no opiates, asked what they did with 
one who could not sleep. u Do !” answered the Sheikh, 
“ why, we make use of him, and set him to watch the camels.” 
If a Bedouin be ill, or have received a wound, he sometimes 
comes to the nearest town, to consult the barbers, who are 
not unskilful surgeons. Hadjir, one of the great chiefs of 
the Shammar, having been struck by a musket-ball, which 
lodged beneath the shoulder-blade, visited the Pasha of 
Mosul to obtain the aid of the European surgeons attached 
to the Turkish troops. They declared an operation to be 
impossible, and refused to undertake it. The Sheikh applied 
to a barber, who, in his shop in the open bazaar, cut quietly 
down to the ball, and taking it out, brought it to the Pasha 
in a plate, to claim a reward for his skill. It is trne, that 
the European surgeons in the service of the Porte are not 
very eminent in their profession. The Bedouins set broken 
limbs by means of rude splints. 
The women suffer little in labour, which often takes place 
during a march, or when they are far from their encamp- 
ment, watering the flocks or collecting fuel. They allow the 
children to remain at the breast until they are nearly two or 
even three years old, and consequently, have rarely many 
offspring. — From Discoveries in Nineveh , by A. II. Layard , M.F . , 
in 6 Association Medical Journal .’ 
THE BRUSH TICK. 
The Australian Tick, means not Greek, calend — 
colonial, credit — but implies one or two species of in- 
sects which infest, torment, and sometimes kill our sheep 
in this colony. The acarus reduvius of the British shepherds 
is not included under this head, although it was at one 
time introduced by an importation of Leicester sheep 
from England, bad luck to them, as if their own bad breed, 
with bad wool, bad carcasses, and bad constitutions, did not 
comprehend a concentration of bad qualities sufficient and 
more, but that they must bring the ked, another bad vermin, 
to make the lot as bad as could possibly be found, or brought, 
to do grievous injury to a country like Australia. The appli- 
