THE PLAGUE. 183 Case V.— H. L. was smitten with the plague, which affected him by a pain similar to that of a long needle (as he expressed himself) repeatedly plunged into his groin. In an hour or two afterwards, a (jimmera) carbuncle appeared in the groin, which continued enlarging three days, at the expiration of which period he could neither support the pain, nor conceal his sensations ; he laid himselfdown on a couch ; an Arabian doctor, applied to the carbuncles the testicles of a ram cut in half, whilst the vital warmth was still in them ; the carbuncle on the third day was encreased to the size of a small orange ; the beforementioned remedy was daily applied during thirty days, after which he resorted to cataplasms of the juice of the (opuntia) prickly pear-tree, (feshook) gum ammoniac, and (zite el aud) oil of olives, of each one-third : this was intended to promote suppuration, which was soon effected; there remained after the suppuration a large vacuity, which was daily filled with fine hemp dipped in honey; by means of this application the wound filled up, and the whole was well in thirtynine days.

Case VI. — El H—t~e, a trading Jew of Mogodor, was sorely afflicted ; he called upon me, and requested some remedy ; I advised him to use oil o olives, and having Mr. Baldwin's mode of administering it ', I transcribed it in * Mr. Baldwin observed, that, whilst the plague ravaged Egypt, the dealers in oil were not affected with the epidemy ; and he accordingly recommended people to anoint themselves with oil every day as a remedy.

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