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The Padrao and Pinda . 
The most remarkable part is certainly the medical, 
and here the author was simply in advance of his 
age. Instead of the lancet, the drastic cathartics, 
and the calomel with which our naval surgeons 
slew their patients, he employed emetics and tonics 
to an extent that would have charmed my late 
friend, Dr. Dickson, the chromothermalist, and 
he preceded Dr. Hutchinson in the use of quinine 
wine. Indeed, the peculiar aptitude for medicine 
shown in these pages led to the travellers adopt¬ 
ing the destructive art of healing as a profession, 
and caused his unhappy end. The curious mixture 
of utter imposture and of genius for observation 
which a traveller can detect in Douville renders 
him worthy of a monograph. 
