1 it broke, and die lute* was very nuieli inflamed and swollen.
2 Feeling an accumulation of matter, I tnr.de an incision, upon
3 which it began to flow. I kept the wound open for several
4 days, and ordered the swollen parts to be embrocated with wax-
5 oil, and in a few days it was entirely healed. In a severe
6 swelling of the testicles, which was the consequence of an
7 external injury, the same remedy proved efficacious.
8 Oil distilled from wax (cerclamm) is cmplo, ed by the native
9 physicians of the First in various diseases, especially in paralysis,
10 contractions, swellings, wounds, itching, impotence, colds and
11 ci.oleru-morbus. The embrocations are generally performed in
12 he rays of the sun. In cholera-morbus, they drink hot broth
13 afterwards; hot bricks are enveloped in rugs and applied to the
14 soles of the feet, they are then covered wit.li woollen-sheets over
15 the head, to produce perspiration. In similar cases, the Boklur
16 nans administer a Tureomn remedy, with which a
17 native physician assured me he bad cured many cholera patients.
18 The medicament is as cheap as it is simple, and should h ■ used
19 in case no other can be obtained at the moment. They procure
20 a quantity of wheaten bran, sift it seven times, and as many
21 times wash it superficially, then rub it in water with the fingers*
22 and strain it; the stmined water is simmered until reduced to
23 one-half, to which they mid some garlic .tad almond oil, and it. is
24 then drunk lukewarm. Tim garlic serves, as the physician told,
25 me, to drive away the evil spirits. The physicians of Europe may
26 learn by this what remedies ought to be employed when patients
27 are haunted by evil ■pints, a thing which occurs occasionally in
28 the case of ladies. The same doctor also informed me by what
29 means they got rid of the cholera at Bokhara. A procession
30 was arranged, during which they buried in the middle of the
31 city a. new horse-hide, which is easily procured there; as the
32 inhabitants of Bokhara eat.more horse-flesh than any other kind
33 of meat, ind which is probably the cause of tin's odd idea.
34 The Aflgkans have also a peculiar method of curing nervous
35 fevers. They envelop the patient in the skin of a newly-killed
36 animal (goat or sheep), in which lie falls into n perspiration, and
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