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TRAVELS IX UPPER
and whose various prescriptions he had the perse-
verance to follow one after another, and frequently
at the same time.
One of these physicians ordered him to apply
the cast skin of a snake, under his turban, a cele-
brated preservative and specific in Egypt for dis-
eases of the head. The remedy which another
prescribed for his complaint, was to go out on
foot and walk into the country, till he should fall
in with a rag, no matter of what sort, which he
was to drag along with his naked foot till he
reached his house, where he was to take three
sticks and a small quantity of alum, and burning
the whole together, to inhale the smoke. A third
had assured the Aga, that in three days he would
cure him of the complaint in his stomach, under
which he laboured. His treatment consisted in
rubbing the stomach, and pressing it violently,
and afterwards in squeezing it tightly with ban-
dages. 1 witnessed the resignation of the sick
man under this tiresome operation ; but the phy-
sician, very prudently, took his departure before
the expiration of the three days which he had re-
quired to effect the cure.
In other respects this over-credulous Aga was of
considerable service to me. The army of Mourat
Bey, commanded by a bey of his household, and
along
TRAVELS IX UPPER
and whose various prescriptions he had the perse-
verance to follow one after another, and frequently
at the same time.
One of these physicians ordered him to apply
the cast skin of a snake, under his turban, a cele-
brated preservative and specific in Egypt for dis-
eases of the head. The remedy which another
prescribed for his complaint, was to go out on
foot and walk into the country, till he should fall
in with a rag, no matter of what sort, which he
was to drag along with his naked foot till he
reached his house, where he was to take three
sticks and a small quantity of alum, and burning
the whole together, to inhale the smoke. A third
had assured the Aga, that in three days he would
cure him of the complaint in his stomach, under
which he laboured. His treatment consisted in
rubbing the stomach, and pressing it violently,
and afterwards in squeezing it tightly with ban-
dages. 1 witnessed the resignation of the sick
man under this tiresome operation ; but the phy-
sician, very prudently, took his departure before
the expiration of the three days which he had re-
quired to effect the cure.
In other respects this over-credulous Aga was of
considerable service to me. The army of Mourat
Bey, commanded by a bey of his household, and
along