ives, and having Mr. Baldwin's mode of
184 administering it[138], I transcribed it in the Arabic language, and
gave it to him; he followed the prescription, and assured me, about
six weeks afterwards, that (with the blessing of God) he had
preserved his life by that remedy only; he said, that after having
been anointed with oil, his skin became harsh and dry like the
scales of a fish, but that in half an hour more, a profuse
perspiration came on, and continued for another half hour, after
which he experienced relief: this he repeated forty days, when, he
was quite recovered.

[Footnote 138: Mr. Baldwin observed, that, whilst the plague
ravaged Egypt, the dealers in oil were not affected with the
epidemy; and he accordingly recommended people to anoint
themselves with oil every day as a remedy.]

Case VII.--Moh--m'd ben A---- fell suddenly down in the street; he
was conveyed home; three carbuncles and five buboes appeared soon
after in his groin, under the joint of his knee, and arm-pits, and
inside the elbow; he died in three hours after the attack.

Case VIII.--L.R. was suddenly smitten with this dreadful calamity,
whilst looking over some Marocco leather; he fell instantaneously;
afterwards, when he had recovered his senses, he described the
sensation as that of the pricking of needles, at every part wherein
the carbuncles afterwards appeared: he died the same day in
defiance of medicine.

Case IX.--Mr. Pacifico, a merchant, was attacked, and felt a
pricking pain down the inside of the thick part of the thigh, near
the sinews; he was obliged to go to bed. I visited him the next
day, and was going to approach him, but he exclaimed, "Do not come
185 near for although I know I have not the prevailing distemper, yet
your friends, if you touch me, may persuade you otherwise, and that
might alarm you; I shall, I hope, be well in a few days." I took
the hint of Don Pedro de Victoria, a Spanish gentleman, who was in
the room, who, offering me a sagar, I smoked it, and then departed;
the next day the patient died. He was attended during his illness
by the philanthropic Monsieur Soubremont, who did not stir from his
bed-side till he expired; but after exposing himself in this
manner, escaped the infection, which proceeded, as he thought, fr