1 poli. Hi vi out, Seklu, Sur, Acre, Nazareth, Jerusalem, anil Hetli-
2 lehem, anil visited the Holy Sepulchre, &c. in the autumn of the
3 year 1819. From Jaffa [embarked for Dnmietta, and went up tin
4 Nile as far is Cairo. At that period an Afnienian from Tocat,
5 named Giovanni Bozzari, enjoyed the title of First Physician,
6 under tlte superintendence of whom ! obtained employment in
7 the fortress. Giovanni Bo/.zari pursued his medical studies at
8 Constantinople, in tire house of u Venetian doctor named Hozzari.
9 Availing himself of the name of his professor, when in Pgvpt,
10 Mahomed Ali, at that time a Binbashi (chief, of HI' 9 men), pro
11 teeteil him, as he had been well advised by Ho’/.s'.aii when he
12 applied for his assistance. Subsequently, when Mahomed Ali
13 was promoted to the dignity of a Paslm, llozzari was invested
14 with the title of privy counsellor, and occupied at the same time
15 the post of physician in ordinary: Cvi fori/tim favet, <pouui
16 petitu inanet!
17 At that period (18:ii0_ 1821) Mahomed Ali despatched an
18 army to Upper .Egypt* under the command of his second son,
19 lsmall l’asha; his elder son. Tnssoon Pasha, having died by the
20 plague some years previous. I was one of the first among the
21 physician; engaged for that expedition; but whilst they *eiv.
22 preparing for the march, the plague broke out, which induced
23 me to gi' C up that, fatiguing and perilous journey, cede tny post.
24 h> anoibi r, and go back to Syria. Some time after, 1 learned
25 that (he expedition miscarried, that none of those t n or twelve
26 physicians who accompanied the army hud returned, and that
27 Ismail Pasha himself had been uassfiorcri.
28 At Cairo I was so fortunate as to he very successful in tny
29 i. ures Among others, I attended a merchant of Copttantinople,
30 H Greek, who was greatly afflicted with the stone during a period
31 of forty years, so that he was willing to undergo an operation.
32 I cured him of his complaint by administering to him (for a
33 period of six weeks) diluted mu kitie acid. More recently I
34 Iried the rathe remedy with other patients for the malady, but.
35 without any success. I deduce from tlri>, that the substance* of
36 tlte stones in the latter cases were riot the same as with my patient