1 At Aleppo I found many Germans among the numerous Euro¬
2 peans, and on that account would willingly liave practised there'
3 for some time. Unhappily 1 fell sick on the road, as between
4 Adana, eund Alexancfretta I hod to cross an unhealthy, low and
5 marshy country, where malaria and marsh-fever "ere prevalent.
6 In consequence I "as attacked with a disorder called soh-utiute
7 inflammation in the spleen, which afterwards turned into at ob¬
8 stinate quartan ague, of which l got cured only when I had left
9 Aleppo; and that, I suppose, was the reason why I could ncit get
10 ao extensive medical practice. A physician (was the saying) who
11 is not able to cure himself, can never cure others.
12 After., two months' stay on the Syrian coast, during which
13 time I enjoyed the host health, l tried to get hack again to
14 Aleppo; but at tire last station before reaching Aleppo I caught
15 the fever, on the satire spot where it left, me, and curious enough
16 I found, in my journal, it happened on the same day it would
17 have befallen nte had I not left Aleppo at. all. Thus it continued
18 to be my constant companion during all my stay there; but as
19 soon as I took my leave of that place, it deserted ntc, without
20 having been expelled by any remedy. I hail full ten months to
21 suffer by that tiresome guest. The experience 1 had myself,
22 agrees with that, sentence, “ Fein in auhumta/is *#/ Um<ja nun
23 tutkali*." During these ten months I got but few cessations of my
24 illness, and thou only at short intervals. Out may infer from
25 this, that obstinate diseases, defying every medical assistance, can
26 only be cured by travelling, I mean to say (change of air) by
27 removing front the country where the disease is caught.
28 Subsequently I had the opportunity of effecting several cures
29 in Tripoli—where these marshy fevers are eitdemicn!—With a
30 compound mentioned itt the second volume of my work, contain,
31 mg arsenic and bitter almonds (prussic acid) in niiimte doses,
32 which was eminently efficacious where sulphate of quinine failed.
33 1 quitted Aleppo before the fatal catastrophe of the earth¬
34 quake, which caused so many diasters; the village called .liser-
35 slml, on the river (betweru Latachia and Aleppo); was entirely
36 destroyed. Following the Syrian coast, 1 crossed Latachia, Tri •
37 t> a