small black
spots similar to grains of gun-powder; in this state, however, they
possessed their intellects, and spoke rationally till their
dissolution.

When the constitution was not disposed, or had not vigour enough to
throw the miasma to the surface in the form of biles, buboes,
carbuncles, or blackish spots, the virulence is supposed to have
operated inwardly, or on the vital parts, and the patient died in
less than twenty-four hours, without any exterior disfiguration.

Case IV.--It was reported that the Sultan had the plague twice
during the season, as many others had; so that the idea of its
attacking like the small-pox, a person but once in his life, is
refuted: the Sultan was cured by large doses of Peruvian bark
frequently repeated, and it was said that he found such infinite
benefit from it, that he advised his brothers never to travel
without having a good supply. The Emperor, since the plague, always
has by him a sufficient quantity of quill bark to supply his
emergency.
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Case V.--H.L. was smitten with the plague, which affected him by a
pain similar to that of a long needle (as he expressed himself)
repeatedly plunged into his groin. In an hour or two afterwards, a
(_jimmera_) carbuncle appeared in the groin, which continued
enlarging three days, at the expiration of which period he could
neither support the pain, nor conceal his sensations; he laid
himself down on a couch; an Arabian doctor, applied to the
carbuncles the testicles of a ram cut in half, whilst the vital
warmth was still in them; the carbuncle on the third day was
encreased to the size of a small orange; the before-mentioned
remedy was daily applied during thirty days, after which he
resorted to cataplasms of the juice of the (_opuntia_) prickly
pear-tree, (_feshook_) gum ammoniac, and (_zite el aud_) oil of
olives, of each one-third; this was intended to promote
suppuration, which was soon effected; there remained after the
suppuration a large vacuity, which was daily filled with fine hemp
dipped in honey; by means of this application the wound filled up,
and the whole was well in thirty-nine days.

Case VI.--El H--t--e, a trading Jew of Mogodor, was sorely
afflicted; he called upon me, and requested some remedy; I advised
him to use oil of ol