k it safe
to admit him, but told him to go back to his house for a few days,
until he should be able to ascertain that he was quite well; he
accordingly returned to his apartments, but expired that evening,
and before day-break his body was in such a state, that his feet
181 were actually putrified. His wife, by attending on him, caught the
infection, having a carbuncle, and also buboes, and was confined
two months before she recovered.

Case II.--L'Hage Hamed O Bryhim, the old governor of Mogodor, had
twelve or more children, and four wives, who were all attacked, and
died (except only one young wife); he attended them successively to
the grave, and notwithstanding that he assisted in performing the
religious ceremony of washing the body, he never himself caught the
infection; he lived some years afterwards, and out of the whole
household, consisting of wives, concubines, children, and slaves,
he had but one person left, which was the before-mentioned young
wife: this lady, however, had received the infection, and was
confined some time before she recovered.

Case. III.--Hamed ben A---- was smitten with the plague, which he
compared to the sensation of two musket balls fired at him, one in
each thigh; a giddiness and delirium succeeded, and immediately
afterwards a green vomiting, and he fell senseless to the ground; a
short time afterwards, on the two places where he had felt as if
shot, biles or buboes formed, and on suppurating, discharged a
foetid black pus; a (_jimmera_) carbuncle on the joint of the arm
near the elbow was full of thin ichor, contained in an elevated
skin, surrounded by a burning red colour; after three months'
confinement, being reduced to a skeleton, the disorder appeared to
182 have exhausted itself, and he began to recover his strength, which
in another month was fully reestablished. It was an observation
founded on daily experience, during the prevalence of this
disorder, that those who were attacked with a nausea at the
stomach, and a subsequent vomiting of green or yellow bile,
recovered after suffering in various degrees, and that those who
were affected with giddiness, or delirium, followed by a discharge
or vomiting of black bile, invariably died after lingering one,
two, or three days, their bodies being covered with