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2 driven to the lower parts of the intestines, and ultimately ejected
3 by a brisk purge, such as in a civilized country would only be
4 employed by a veterinary surgeon. If the worm is in the
5 stomach, then the next process is that of administering tartar-
6 emetic (as I have previously alluded to), and thus preventing
7 the necessity of using strong spirits, and the drastic purgative.
8 But if it is probable that the purgative will, together with the
9 worm, eject also the mucus, then it is advisable to administer,
10 a few days after the ejection of the worm, the purgative, but
11 without the assistance of spirits, or vinegar.
12 Not far from Kanobin, below the highest summits of the
13 Lebanon, covered with eternal snow, beneath which the well-
14 known cedar-trees grow, are the villages of Eden and Besherri,
15 where I succeeded in effecting many cures in the summer
16 of 1821.
17 The chiefs of the Maronites and Druses (Emir Beshir and
18 Sheikh Beshir) on arriving at Besherri to meet the rebels, applied
19 to me for medical assistance ; and at a later period I was invited
20 to their residences (Tidin and Muktara), where I practised for
21 some time, so that I lived for several years very agreeably,
22 enjoying the most beautiful and romantic views of the Holy
23 Land (Palestine).
24 At Besherri I tried vaccination, but I found that the inhabi-
25 tants were not affected by the operation, the vaccine matter
26 producing no pustules, and I was told that none of them
27 caught the small-pox, because their cows have sometimes the
28 cow-pox, the origin of which is caused by the change of climate.
29 The inhabitants of the higher regions pass the winter, together
30 with their cattle, in the plains of Sgorta, not far from Tripoli.
31 Hence I infer that the inhabitants of Besherri, through being
32 in continual contact with their cattle, as cows, & c., become
33 infected with the disease, and are thus preserved from human
34 contagion. A quite distinct disease, occurring frequently on the
35 Lebanon, is the so-called hdbbet-ul-kei, which is a sort of gan-
36 grenous ulcer, but very different from the endemic sore at
37 Aleppo and Bagdad, called /intone rC Aleppo, an ulcer which