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receipts for every disease. Whenever he was con-
sulted, he turned over his repository, and never
gave an answer till he had met with a passage
which he thought might apply to the case of his
patient. One of my people who was troubled with
ague-fits, seemed to address him with a tone of
confidence. After being informed of the symptoms
which attended the fever, this unpractised physi-
cian sought a long while in his book, which in
similar cases prescribed acid fruits, such as lemons,
pomegranates, &c. &c. 8cc. and the smoke of a
burnt fish bone, which the aguish man ought to
inhale. But, shutting the book, he added, from
his own stock of science, " There is no remedy
*' more effectual against fevers than vjrilten cha-
" racters;" that is to say, small billets on which
certain words are written, and which are either
swallowed or carried about as a charm.
This quack, who had been brought from a great
distance to cure the chief of Gournci, did not so
much as know his disease, although he had been
with him several days. When I had gone away
he followed me to ask what I thought of the case.
" Look," said I to him, " in your book under the
" article fistulas, and you will discover the nature
" of that disease, and perhaps the remedy ; but
" lose no time, for the gangrene begins to appear,
" and in a very short period your patient will die,
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receipts for every disease. Whenever he was con-
sulted, he turned over his repository, and never
gave an answer till he had met with a passage
which he thought might apply to the case of his
patient. One of my people who was troubled with
ague-fits, seemed to address him with a tone of
confidence. After being informed of the symptoms
which attended the fever, this unpractised physi-
cian sought a long while in his book, which in
similar cases prescribed acid fruits, such as lemons,
pomegranates, &c. &c. 8cc. and the smoke of a
burnt fish bone, which the aguish man ought to
inhale. But, shutting the book, he added, from
his own stock of science, " There is no remedy
*' more effectual against fevers than vjrilten cha-
" racters;" that is to say, small billets on which
certain words are written, and which are either
swallowed or carried about as a charm.
This quack, who had been brought from a great
distance to cure the chief of Gournci, did not so
much as know his disease, although he had been
with him several days. When I had gone away
he followed me to ask what I thought of the case.
" Look," said I to him, " in your book under the
" article fistulas, and you will discover the nature
" of that disease, and perhaps the remedy ; but
" lose no time, for the gangrene begins to appear,
" and in a very short period your patient will die,
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