ON AFRICA. 423 When corn "was to he ground, or bread made, both "were done in the houses of the rich, and prepared by themselves ;for the veryfew poor people "whom the plague had spared were insufficient for the wants of the affluent, and they were consequently obliged to work for themselves. The country being now depopulated, vast tribes of Arabs from the Desert poured into Suse and Draha ; settling themselves on the river Draha and in Suse, and wherever they found little or no population.

The symptoms of the disorder varied in difr ferent patients ; in some it manifested itselfby a sudden shivering, in others by delirium, succeeded by a violent thirst. Cold water was drank eagerly by the imprudent, and generally proved fatal. Some had one, two, or three, some more biles, generally in the groin, under the arm, or near the breast ; some had more. Some had no biles, nor any outward disfiguration; these were invariably carried off in less than twenty-four hours. I recommended Mr. Baldwin's remedy *, applied according to his directions ; and I do not know one instance of its failing, when properly applied, and sufficiently persevered in.

I have no doubt but the epidemy, which has been ravaging Spain lately, is the same disorder with the one above described. We have been told that it was communicated originally to Spain by two infected persons, who went from Tan-* Of unction of the body with olive oil.

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