1 twenty yearn of age. All Jislics, before tlrcy arc placed on
2 rhe table of the prince, nuist be tasted by Mosbbegi, in the
3 kitchen ; bo puts them afterwards in a locked basket, of which
4 he arid the emir only have the keys.
5 The emir having taken the above-mentioned bilious fever,
6 1 was introduced to him by Hothbegi. I administered the
7 usual emetic, which had a good effect, arid Hoshbegi requested
8 the recipe of it. He asked me also for some tartar-emetic
9 quinine (with which last he was acquainted through l)r.
10 Gerard), ami phosphorus, the latter for his recreation.
11 Among the many patients I had to attend during mv stay at
12 Bokhara, was one affected with asthma, whom I was ordered
13 by the emir to cure, as he was a relation of his own, and the
14 recovery of whom produced some sensation. Ibis man was
15 troubled upwards of twenty years with a spasmodic and periodic
16 asthma; he was already very weak and exhausted, yet I sue
17 ceeded in curing him.
18 iloshbcgi was 'very much pleased with my information, and
19 was anxious for instruction, so we passed many hours in conver¬
20 sation. A short time after the death of the aforesaid student,
21 he asked me how the stone is produced in man; this I ex¬
22 plained to him clearly. At this time, the Eroirakhuor (chief
23 groom) gave me two stones from a horse, each the size of a
24 goose egg, which had been ejected, along with the excrement,
25 in the intcrvul of a year, and which probably had been formed
26 in the stomach or intestines. I remember relating an anecdote to
27 him on that occasion, which I venture to introduce here, it
28 having very much pleased Iloshbcgi. A mother on the Lebanon,
29 whose boy I operated on, (old me she well knew the cause of the
30 formation of the stone in the body of her son George, l
31 begged her to tell trie her opinion, and she went on saying: l! My
32 husband, who is a butcher, i.> addicted to drink; lie departed
33 for the fair twelve years ago, when J was nursing George. His
34 intention was to buy some oxen, and he took a large sum of
35 money with him, of which he was robbed while in a state of
36 intoxication. When 1 heard this, continued the woman, it mad
37 voi.. i.
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