1 several persons had died suddenly, which caused great alarm
2 among the .inhabitants. The silk gathering was just ended,
3 and I found the diseased were located in miserable, low homes,
4 deprived of fre. ii air; I thought it advisable to cause them to he
5 removed from their habitations, and brought into the manufac¬
6 tories, where previously the silk worms had been; and the result
7 of my treatment was, that none of my patients died of that
8 disease. I was conducted from Mesrut-ul-Toofuh, to a place a
9 little farther'up the Lebanon, to Vito, where the former French
10 interpreter, Isaac Torbei, was confined to his bed with Angina,
11 and was unable to articulute, in spite of all his efforts to do so.
12 I examined, his throat, and found an abscess therein, which f
13 opened immediately; by which operation mv patient was able to
14 ‘alk instantly, and after a fev day., lie entirely recovered.
15 From Aito, 1 was brought to Kannohin, to the residence of
16 the iVIaronitan patriarch, where the Bishop Moot ran Soman lay
17 very ill. Kannohin is situated on a declivity, from whence a
18 beautiful view is obtained of the valley. It is by no means a
19 town, ns the Dictionnoire JBncj/clopedUfue F'<m$aua (second
20 edition) erroneously asserts, .it being merely a convent. There
21 is a curious custom attached to this country, and in most places
22 of .Asia. A physician being called on to attend a sick person, it
23 is first, arranged as to how much he will require for curing the
24 same; upon that arrangement being completed, the physician
25 receives one moiety of the sum agreed upon, and upon the
26 recovery of the patient, he receives the balance, which includes
27 the cost of medicine.
28 Having arrived at Kannohin, I found the bishop suffering from
29 nervous fever, in u state of insensibility. After a strict examina¬
30 tion. I entertained but little hopes of his recovery. His numerous
31 relatives, standing round his bed, appeared to have resigned all
32 hope previous to my arrival. I agreed with the brothers of the
33 bishop as to the amount they were to pay me for inv attendance,
34 the half of which I received in advance, for the medicines to be
35 delivered, the' other half to he paid after the recovery of the
36 t ati nt. from whose own hands I should receive it, according