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TO RHODES. 217 
ftnd fruit. A few live sheep were, moreover, chap. 
huddled together close to the gun in the forecastle. 
During our stay at the Dardanelles, we had lived 
in the house of the Neapolitan Consul. This re- 
spectable old man put in force a stratagem which^ 
may serve to shew the extraordinary power of 
hnagination over diseases of the body. The 
author, being troubled with an intermitting fever, 
brought on during his journey in Troas, had been 
observed by the Consul to go frequently to a 
clock, in the antechamber of our apartment, 
watching for the hour when the paroxysm would 
begin. This had hitherto occurred exactly at 
noon. One morning he put back the clock a full 
hour. At tivelve, therefore, as the index pointed 
to eleven, there was no apprehension of the fever; 
and at one, although the hour seemed to be pre- 
sent, the paroxysm did not take place. Unfor- 
tunately, pleased by the success of his experi- 
ment, he boasted of it; and the consequence was, 
that, after the usual interval, the fever again 
returned. In the same manner, the charins used 
among the lower order of people in England, 
and in other countries, operate in healing agues. 
The Tomh of Protesilaus, as related by Philostra- 
tus\ was antiently resorted to for the cure of a 
quartan fever. 
(l) P/iilostrat. in Heroicis. — See also Chandler's Ilium, p. 14-. 
