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THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST.
71
At Bokhara, I found that the guinea-worm (Dracun-
culus) occurred very frequently. At Cabul, I saw a strange
case of this kind, in which a merchant had drunk the
water from which it orginates a year previously at Bombay.
The worm was at the hollow of the knee. Upon its ap-
pearing and being pulled, it broke, and the knee was very
much inflamed and swollen. Feeling an accumulation of
matter, I made an incision, upon which it began to flow.
1 kept the wound open for several days, and ordered the
swollen parts to be embrocated with wax-oil, and in a few
days it was entirely healed. In a severe swelling of the
testicles, which was the consequence of an external injury,
the same remedy proved efficacious.
Oil distilled from wax (cerelseum ) is employed by the
native physicians of the East in various diseases, especially
in paralysis, contractions, swellings, wounds, itching, im-
potence, colds and cholera-morbus. The embrocations are
generally performed in the rays of the sun. In cholera-
morbus, they drink hot broth afterwards ; hot bricks are
enveloped in rugs and applied to the soles of the feet, they
are then covered with woollen-sheets over the head, to
produce perspiration. In similar cases, the Bokharians
administer a Turcoman-sudorific remedy, with which a na-
tive physician assured me he had cured many cholera
patients. The medicament is as cheap as it is simple, and
should be used in case no other can be obtained at the
moment. They procure a quantity of wheaten bran, sift it
seven times, and as many times wash it superficially, then
rub it in water with the fingers, and strain it ; the strained
water is simmered until reduced to one-half, to which they
add some garlic and almond oil, and it is then drunk luke-
warm4 The garlic serves, as the physician told me, to
drive away the evil spirits. The physicians of Europe may
learn by this what remedies ought to be employed when
patients are haunted by evil spirits, a thing which occurs
occasionally in the case of ladies. The same doctor also in-
formed me by what means they got rid of the cholera at
Bokhara, A procession was arranged, during which they
71
At Bokhara, I found that the guinea-worm (Dracun-
culus) occurred very frequently. At Cabul, I saw a strange
case of this kind, in which a merchant had drunk the
water from which it orginates a year previously at Bombay.
The worm was at the hollow of the knee. Upon its ap-
pearing and being pulled, it broke, and the knee was very
much inflamed and swollen. Feeling an accumulation of
matter, I made an incision, upon which it began to flow.
1 kept the wound open for several days, and ordered the
swollen parts to be embrocated with wax-oil, and in a few
days it was entirely healed. In a severe swelling of the
testicles, which was the consequence of an external injury,
the same remedy proved efficacious.
Oil distilled from wax (cerelseum ) is employed by the
native physicians of the East in various diseases, especially
in paralysis, contractions, swellings, wounds, itching, im-
potence, colds and cholera-morbus. The embrocations are
generally performed in the rays of the sun. In cholera-
morbus, they drink hot broth afterwards ; hot bricks are
enveloped in rugs and applied to the soles of the feet, they
are then covered with woollen-sheets over the head, to
produce perspiration. In similar cases, the Bokharians
administer a Turcoman-sudorific remedy, with which a na-
tive physician assured me he had cured many cholera
patients. The medicament is as cheap as it is simple, and
should be used in case no other can be obtained at the
moment. They procure a quantity of wheaten bran, sift it
seven times, and as many times wash it superficially, then
rub it in water with the fingers, and strain it ; the strained
water is simmered until reduced to one-half, to which they
add some garlic and almond oil, and it is then drunk luke-
warm4 The garlic serves, as the physician told me, to
drive away the evil spirits. The physicians of Europe may
learn by this what remedies ought to be employed when
patients are haunted by evil spirits, a thing which occurs
occasionally in the case of ladies. The same doctor also in-
formed me by what means they got rid of the cholera at
Bokhara, A procession was arranged, during which they