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2 efficacy of clysters, as they are recoin mended in their medical
3 books, seldom apply them, and only in cases where all other
4 remedies fail, as they consider it as a last resource ; in a country
5 where pederasty is in vogue, it is disgraceful to acknowledge
6 that fact. At his request for a proper remedy to be taken by
7 the mouth, I prepared for him the well known aloetic dinner-
8 pills, mentioned in the second volume of this work, from which
9 he found great benefit.
10 Besides these pills, I ordered him to observe the following
11 rules : Post coenam stabis , vel passus mille meabis , or —
12 “ After dinner, sit awhile ;
13 After supper, walk a mile.”
14 For several years I spent the cold seasons in the maritime
15 towns on the Syrian coast, at Tripoli or Beyrout, where the
16 winters are only rainy; but I passed the hot summer-months in
17 the most agreeable regions of Mount Lebanon. At Araba, not
18 far from Seyda, I made the acquaintance of that original person.
19 Lady Hester Stanhope, who called herself Queen of Palmyra.
20 I \yas told that she ordered a herd of goats to be killed, and
21 buried, and paid the people who did so, well, only because a few of
22 them were scabby, and she thought by that expedient to prevent
23 epidemical diseases, which might occur by their eating the flesh,
24 or drinking the milk. Not far from Tripoli, there lay at the
25 foot of the Lebanon, in a very romantic valley, a village called
26 Mesrut-ul-Toofah (apple-district), where I was requested to
27 attend some fever patients. My friends advised me not to go
28 there, as in their opinion an epidemical disease was raging at
29 that place; but I did not listen to their warnings, as I wished to
30 be useful to those people who had implored my assistance, and at
31 the same time to extend my experience. When I was near the
32 village, I saw a great many Maronite girls (Christians), coming
33 back from the well, with pitchers on their heads, each of them
34 holding an onion in their hands, at which they frequently smelled.
35 The epidemical disease had the character of a Synochus, and