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1873.] EFFICACY OF SEA BATHS. 141
here, it was still open only 20 years ago, and, as my exca-
vations have proved, it was very large. The town, as seems
to be indicated by a continuous elevation extending below
the quarry, had a double surrounding wall at this point,
and this was in fact necessary, for otherwise the enemy
would have been able, with no further difficulty, to force
his way into the quarry below the town-wall, as the entrance
to the quarry was outside of the wall.
Unfortunately, without possessing the slightest know-
ledge of medicine, I have become celebrated here as a
physician, owing to the great quantity of quinine and tinc-
ture of arnica which I brought with me and distributed
liberally, and by means of which, in October and November
of last year, I cured all fever patients and wounds. In
consequence of this, my valuable time is now claimed in a
troublesome manner by sick people, who frequently come
from a distance of many miles, in order to be healed of
their complaints by my medicine and advice. In all the
villages of this district, the priest is the parish doctor,
and as he himself possesses no medicines, and is ignorant
of their properties, and has besides an innate dislike to
cold water and all species of washing, he never uses any
other means than bleeding, which, of course, often kills
the poor creatures. Wrinkles on either side of the lips
of children from 10 to 12 years of age show that the priest
has repeatedly bled them. Now I hate the custom of
bleeding, and am enthusiastically in favour of the cold-
water cure; hence I never bleed anyone, and I prescribe
sea-bathing for almost all diseases; this can be had here by
everyone, except myself, who have no time for it. My
ordering these baths has given rise to such confidence, nay
enthusiasm, that even women, who fancied that it would
he their death to touch their bodies with cold water, now
go joyfully into the water and take their dip. Among
others, a fortnight ago, a girl of seventeen from Neo-
Cliori was brought to me; her body was covered with
here, it was still open only 20 years ago, and, as my exca-
vations have proved, it was very large. The town, as seems
to be indicated by a continuous elevation extending below
the quarry, had a double surrounding wall at this point,
and this was in fact necessary, for otherwise the enemy
would have been able, with no further difficulty, to force
his way into the quarry below the town-wall, as the entrance
to the quarry was outside of the wall.
Unfortunately, without possessing the slightest know-
ledge of medicine, I have become celebrated here as a
physician, owing to the great quantity of quinine and tinc-
ture of arnica which I brought with me and distributed
liberally, and by means of which, in October and November
of last year, I cured all fever patients and wounds. In
consequence of this, my valuable time is now claimed in a
troublesome manner by sick people, who frequently come
from a distance of many miles, in order to be healed of
their complaints by my medicine and advice. In all the
villages of this district, the priest is the parish doctor,
and as he himself possesses no medicines, and is ignorant
of their properties, and has besides an innate dislike to
cold water and all species of washing, he never uses any
other means than bleeding, which, of course, often kills
the poor creatures. Wrinkles on either side of the lips
of children from 10 to 12 years of age show that the priest
has repeatedly bled them. Now I hate the custom of
bleeding, and am enthusiastically in favour of the cold-
water cure; hence I never bleed anyone, and I prescribe
sea-bathing for almost all diseases; this can be had here by
everyone, except myself, who have no time for it. My
ordering these baths has given rise to such confidence, nay
enthusiasm, that even women, who fancied that it would
he their death to touch their bodies with cold water, now
go joyfully into the water and take their dip. Among
others, a fortnight ago, a girl of seventeen from Neo-
Cliori was brought to me; her body was covered with