Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt ...

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MEDICAL JOURNAL,
These people embarked, after a few days, with the rest of the janissaries,
on board a vessel going to Constantinople, carrying with
them the clothes, Sec. of a man who died under very suspicious
symptoms of plague.
Feb. 1 1 . This day was oppressively warm and sultry.
Wind S. and S. W. we experienced a kampsin wind, which
raised clouds of dust into the atmosphere, and produced a continual
haziness.
The eyes, which suffered from this heat and irritation, were re-
lieved by repeated ablutions of cold water.
Feb. 13. The whole of the mission being entirely free from
infectious symptoms, were ordered to proceed to Alexandria. The
Pacha of Grand Cairo has stated that, " from the most vigilant
" enquiry in the town and suburbs of Cairo, he has not heard of
" another case of plague at present." However, little or no de-
pendance can in reality be placed upon the reports of the Turks.
In Upper Egypt we have heard, that the disease is already re-ap-
pearing.
Feb. 14. Foggy and very cloudy weather; the sun completely
obscured this day; a circumstance which does not often happen in
have been
Egypt, except during the fall of rain. Several days past
close and sultry.
Feb. 2'). Tremendous gales of wind, W. N.W. which were
accompanied on the 25th with heavy showers of rain. Indeed, the
weather was tempestuous from the 20th to the end of the month.
The highest temperature 73 ; lowest 44.
Upon our arrival at Rosetta, on the 23d February, we found
the plague had already appeared there, and had been fatal to a Ser-
jeant of the Indian troops, and several of the inhabitants.
The mission remained well; but, upon their arrival at Alexan-
dria on the 7th of Mareh, were put under quarantine for fifteen
days, as were all vessels and persons coming from Rosetta, several
cases of plague having been said to have been received at Alexan-
dria from the latter place.
March. The month of Mareh was stormy and rainy, and on
the 20th heavy rains and hail fell, accompanied with thunder and
lightning. Winds variable, N. E. N. W. N. W. N.
The highest temperature 79; lowest 57.
Great dews fell about the 16th.
Having been so unlucky as to break my thermometer on the
24th instant, I was obliged to close my observations with it-, and