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2 poli, Beyrout, Seida, Sur, Acre, Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Beth-
3 lehem, and visited the Holy Sepulchre, &c. in the autumn of the
4 year 1819. From Jaffa I embarked for Damietta, and went up the
5 Nile as far as Cairo. At that period an Armenian from Tocat,
6 named Giovanni Bozzari, enjoyed the title of First Physician,
7 under the superintendence of whom I obtained employment in
8 the fortress. Giovanni Bozzari pursued his medical studies at
9 Constantinople, in the house of a Venetian doctor named Bozzari.
10 A vailing himself of the name of his professor, when in Egypt,
11 Mahomed Ali, at that time a Binbashi (chief of 1 0(30 men), pro-
12 tected him, as he hud been well advised by Bozzari when he
13 applied for his assistance. Subsequently, when Mahomed Ali
14 was promoted to the dignity of a Pasha, Bozzari was invested
15 with the title of privy counsellor, and occupied at the same time
16 the post of physician in ordinary : Cui fortuna favet , sponaa
17 petita manet !
18 At that period (1820 — 1821) Mahomed Ali despatched an
19 army to Upper Egypt, under the command of his second son,
20 Ismail Pasha; his elder son, Tossoon Pasha, having died by the
21 plague some years previous. I was one of the first among the
22 physicians engaged for that expedition ; but whilst they were
23 preparing for the march, the plague broke out, which induced
24 me to give up that fatiguing and perilous journey, cede my post
25 to another, and go back to Syria. Some time after, I learned
26 that the expedition miscarried, that none of those ten or twelve
27 physicians who accompanied the army had returned, and that
28 Ismail Pasha himself had been massacred.
29 At Cairo I was so fortunate as to be very successful in my
30 cures. Among others, I attended a merchant of Constantinople,
31 a Greek, who was greatly afflicted with the stone during a period
32 of forty years, so that he was willing to undergo an operation.
33 I cured him of his complaint by administering to him (for a
34 period of six weeks) diluted muriatic acid. More recently I
35 tried the same remedy with other patients for the malady, but
36 without any success. I deduce from this, that the substances of
37 the stones in the latter cases were not the same as with my patient