1 as crystallized sugar; an engraving of it may be fbftnd in the
2 second volume.
3 I instantly sent the stone to the minister Iloshbegi, at the
4 fortress of Registan, with the melancholy asst ranee, that to heal
5 the wound was impossible. In the meanwhile, I availed mysell
6 of the opportunity to request from the minister some genuine
7 Persian mumiai, this remedy being considered in the Arabic
8 Materia Medina- a specific against Wounds anil fractured bones.
9 1 administered one grain to the patient daily. After a few days
10 had elapsed, he began to have an appetite. The minister, who
11 took great interest in the• case, sent twice a-rlay to inquire
12 about the State of the student; and on hearing of this false
13 sign of recovery, he Raid that my fears about the restoration
14 of «nv patient were certainly groundless. “ Would to God,'
15 replied I, “that my prognostic may turn out false, and that 1
16 may he obliged to owe the n deration of the patient to your
17 mumiailint up to this moment all the operations that I bail
18 performed, when the- stone was but slightly attached to the
19 blunder, had always failed; ami in such eases, mortification
20 ensues, generally on the fourth day after the operation, which
21 puts an end to the sufferings of the patient. He took his leave,
22 uttering the consoling words, “Trust and rely on God, which
23 I indeed did; for in sixteen days after, the unfortunate student
24 died of weakness and exhaustion, the bladder being perforated
25 like a sieve, and thus defying surgical and medical art. Feeling
26 the approach of death, he thanked both me and his brother for
27 our attendance, declaring that Iris early death (lie was about,
28 twentv yems of age) was not, the consequence of the inefficiency
29 of the medical art, but the fulfilment of the inscrutable will and
30 decree of God, the Ruler of all beings!
31 Ilosl.bcgi was in one and the same person, AVuzeer, Receiver
32 of the Customs, Druggist anti Hakim to the Emir Like all
33 the literary men in the East, he not only possessed medical
34 knowledge, but he was likewise the confidential friend of
35 hi* princely highness, lie was also charged with the pre¬
36 paration of the victuals for the Emir, who was somewhat over