1 intentionally. 1 am mrry to suy that a student of tin; high
2 college died in consequence of an operation performed by me.
3 My enemies, however, could do me no harm, as I had effected
4 several important cures, among hicli was that of the Kmir
5 himself, whom 1 recovered from a gastric-bilious fever, The
6 unfortunate operation was the extraction of a stone from the
7 bladder; and the proverb is true, which says—“ Non ext in
8 medico semper reletietur id aeger , interdum docia phis valet
9 arte malum? I had a presentiment on that occasion that 1 should
10 not succeed in the operation ; the patient was already so weak¬
11 ened and enervated, that I felt no wish to pperateon him, and
12 yielded only to the request of the minister, who told me that the
13 student was about to kill himself in despair, in ease I persisted in
14 my refusal. To secure myself from reproach, should the operation
15 happen to fail, I can ad a document to be drawn up, with the
16 signatures of the patient and hi* brother, declaring me not he
17 responsible for the result of the operation, as I undertook it only
18 because they insisted On my doing so. This document was legal¬
19 ised by the seals of the emir, minister, and judge. I performed
20 the operation in the presence of several witnesses, whom [ invited
21 for the purpose, among whom there were several hakim*. The
22 extraction of the stone was performed in one of the apartments
23 of the high college. Fortunately I used the apparatus ultns, or
24 I should certainly not. have been able to extract it. The patient
25 behaved very quietly during the operation, which was mor than
26 I had expected, and said nothing hut “ Yu Allah ! Ya Allah i”
27 (() God ! 0 God ') To my grief, and to the surprise of all
28 present, the stone was found to be immoveable, having grown
29 into the substance of the bladder, in such a manner that I have
30 never seen or heard of a similar ease. The reader may imagine
31 the difficulty, 'when, while such operations usually occupy only,
32 two or three minutes, I was fully five and twenty minutes en¬
33 gaged in loosening with the lingers of hot); hands the stone, which
34 had upwards of twenty points, every one of which resembled
35 a thick apple st.dk, Imlf an-incl; long. The size of the ca'culns,
36 however, did not surpass that of a hen’s egg, and it was as white