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

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HISTORICAL JOURNAL<br />

of <strong>the</strong>se cases, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> methods taken to remove <strong>the</strong> contagion from<br />

among us, will be found <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Medical Journal <strong>in</strong> <strong>Syria</strong>.<br />

A typhus patient evidently derived great benefit from <strong>the</strong> use of<br />

<strong>the</strong> oily frictions. The result of my observations <strong>and</strong> practice with<br />

<strong>the</strong> oil <strong>in</strong>duces me to hope it will be found useful as a preventive.<br />

I repeatedly recommended <strong>the</strong> frictions with oil to <strong>the</strong> Turks, but<br />

all to no purpose. While <strong>the</strong>ir prejudices cont<strong>in</strong>ue,<br />

it will be <strong>in</strong><br />

va<strong>in</strong> to attempt reform, or to annihilate <strong>the</strong> disease from among<br />

<strong>the</strong>m. At Smyrna <strong>the</strong>y cont<strong>in</strong>ue to use <strong>the</strong> oil <strong>in</strong> plague, <strong>and</strong> it<br />

is said that this mode of treatment is more efficacious than any<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r. The merchants, however, from whom I collected this ac-<br />

success with <strong>the</strong> oil is not<br />

count, observe, that <strong>the</strong> proportional<br />

every year<br />

<strong>the</strong> same. Sometimes <strong>the</strong> half <strong>and</strong> more of <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>fected<br />

are saved, at o<strong>the</strong>r times not more than a fifth or sixth.

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