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AND LOWER EGYPT. 2J5
which their women wash themselves after lying-in.
A man gave me positive assurance, that he had
been freed by this means of several external symp-
toms which had entirely disappeared ; but even if
this account had been entitled to credit, it was
nevertheless certain that his cure was merely pal-
liative; for this very man was constantly com-
plaining of violent pains in his limbs, and parti-
cularly in the joints. At Cairo, and in the other
cities of Lower Egypt, the treatment is more me-
thodical : they administer for the space of forty
days the decoction of sarsaparilla; the regimen
consists in eating nothing during that time, except
unleavened bread and honey. After that they
prescribe large potations of brandy.
I observed that intermitting fevers were very
uncommon in Egypt. When they do appear, the
symptoms in general only continue for five or six
clays, at the expiration of which period they either
cease altogether, or they become malignant fevers.
The Arabian name for fever is shone. The un-
wholesome food of the greater part of the inhabit-
ants generates an immense quantity of worms in
the intestines; the Egyptians of the Said call
them fchouse. There are few men in this country
who are not subject to the bloody piles: when
they swell and become very painful, they are
t 2 usually
which their women wash themselves after lying-in.
A man gave me positive assurance, that he had
been freed by this means of several external symp-
toms which had entirely disappeared ; but even if
this account had been entitled to credit, it was
nevertheless certain that his cure was merely pal-
liative; for this very man was constantly com-
plaining of violent pains in his limbs, and parti-
cularly in the joints. At Cairo, and in the other
cities of Lower Egypt, the treatment is more me-
thodical : they administer for the space of forty
days the decoction of sarsaparilla; the regimen
consists in eating nothing during that time, except
unleavened bread and honey. After that they
prescribe large potations of brandy.
I observed that intermitting fevers were very
uncommon in Egypt. When they do appear, the
symptoms in general only continue for five or six
clays, at the expiration of which period they either
cease altogether, or they become malignant fevers.
The Arabian name for fever is shone. The un-
wholesome food of the greater part of the inhabit-
ants generates an immense quantity of worms in
the intestines; the Egyptians of the Said call
them fchouse. There are few men in this country
who are not subject to the bloody piles: when
they swell and become very painful, they are
t 2 usually