1 efficacy of clysters, as they are rceoimnen led in their me lical
2 book> seldom apply them, and only in ca-es where all other
3 remedies fail, as they consider ii as a last resource; in « country
4 where pederasty is in vogue, it is disgraceful to acknowledge
5 that fact. -At Ids reqmst for a proper remedy to be taken by
6 the mouth, I prepared for him the well known aloetic dinner-
7 pills, mentioned in the second volume of this work, from which
8 he found great benefit.
9 Besides these pills I ordered him to observe the following
10 rule •: Post coenam stabi-s, vet passus mille ttuMbts, <>r
11 - After dinner, sit awhile I
12 After supper, walk a mile."
13 For several years I spent the cold seasons in the maritime
14 towns on the Syrian coast, at Tripoli or lleyrout, where the
15 winters are only rainy; but I passed the hot summer-months in
16 the most agreeable regions of Mount X.el>anou. At Arabu, not
17 far from Seyda, 1 made the acquaintance of that original person,
18 l.ndy Ilestcr Stanhope, who called hersoll Queen of Palmyra.
19 I was told that she ordered a herd of goats to be killed, and
20 buried, and paid the people who did so, well, only because a. few of
21 them were scabby, and she. thought by tha t expedient to pi event
22 epidemical diseases, which might occur by their eating the flesh,
23 or drinking the milk. Not far from lripqli, there lay ut the
24 foot of the Lebanon, in a very romantic valley, a village called
25 Mesrut-ul-Toojfah (apple-district), where I was requested to
26 attend some fever patients. My friends advised me not to go
27 there, as in their opinion an epidemical disease was raging at.
28 that place; but 1 did not listen to their warnings, as I wished to
29 be useful to those people who bad implored my assistance, and at
30 the same time to extend my experience. When I was near the
31 village, I saw a great many Maronite girls (Christians), coming
32 back from the well, with pitches on their heads, each of them
33 holding an onion in tlieir hands at which they frequently smelled.
34 The epidemical disease had the character of a Synoclms, and