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the Arabic language, and gave it" to him ; he followed the prescription, and assured me, about six weeks afterwards, that (with the blessing of God) he had preserved his life by that remedy only ; he said, that after having been anointed with oil, his skin became harsh and dry like the scales of a fish, but that in half an hour more, a profuse perspiration came on, and continued for another half hour, after which he experienced relief: this he repeated forty days, when he was quite recovered.

Case VII. — Moh—m'd ben A fell suddenly down in the street ; he was conveyed home ; three carbuncles and ve buboes appeared soon after in his groin, under the joint of his knee, and arm-pits, and inside the elbow ; he died in three hours after the attack.

Case VIII. — L. R. was suddenly smitten with this dreadful calamity, whilst looking over some Marocco leather ; he fell instantaneously ; afterwards, when he had recovered his senses, he described the sensation as that of the pricking of needles, at every part wherein the carbuncles afterwards appeared : he died the same day in defiance of medicine.

Case IX. — Mr. Pacifico, a merchant, was attacked, and felt a pricking pain down the inside of the thick part of the thigh, near the sinews -, he was obliged to go to bed. I visited him the next day, and was going to approach him, but he exclaimed, " Uo not come near mc for although I know I have not the pre-