_(El Murrar) Bile._—This is a very general disease, as well as all those which proceed from a too copious secretion of bile. The Jews, and the Mohammedans who are not scrupulous, use brandy made from raisins or figs to remove the bilious sensation, which operates as an anodyne. Senna, rhubarb, and succotrine aloes, mixed with honey, are administered with temporary success. _(Bu Saffra) Jaundice._—Men, as well as horses, having the jaundice, are punctured with a hot iron, through the skin, at the joints. I have seen both cured in six or seven days by this operation. _(Tunia) Tape-worm._—This is a disease to which the people are particularly subject; they take large quantities of (El Assel ou Assheh) honey and worm-seed, which produces beneficial effects. The children are generally afflicted with this disease; the eyes appear hollow, with a whiteness of the adjacent skin. _(Bu Wasir), Hæmorrhoides._—This disease is very general; refrigerants are applied for its cure internally, and an unguent, composed of oil of almonds, and the juice of the opuntia, or prickly-pear tree. _Hydrophobia_ is entirely unknown in West Barbary, which is the more extraordinary, as dogs abound every where, are frequently destitute of water, and suffer intolerably from heat and exposure to the sun. _Hernia._—Cases of hernia are sometimes met with, though not so frequently as in Europe. They have no effectual remedy for any of the before mentioned diseases; their whole materia medica consists, with little exception, of herbs and other vegetables, from their knowledge of the medical virtues of which much might be learned by European physicians. Bleeding is a general remedy for various complaints; the healthy let blood once a year. Scarification on the forehead, at the back of the head, below the root of the hair, on the loins, the breast, and the legs is generally practised in cases of violent head-ache proceeding from an obstructed perspiration. The classification of remedies among the Arabs is remarkably simple, the two grand divisions are refrigerants and heating medicines: they quote some ancient Arabian, who says, Shrub Dim Wine produces blood. El Ham el Ham Meat produces flesh. Khubs Adem Bread produces bone. U el bakee makan But all other things produce no good. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 147: See the Author’s observations, in a letter to Mr. Willis, in Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1805.] [Footnote 148: See page 105.] [Footnote 149: I have been informed that there are still at Marocco, apartments wherein the dead were placed; and that after the whole family was swept away the doors were built up, and remain so to this day.] [Footnote 150: There died, during the whole of the above periods, in the city of Marocco, 50,000; in Fas, 65,000; in Mogodor, 4,500; and in Saffy, 5,000; in all 124,500 souls!] [Footnote 151: Des gens parvenues, as the French express it; or upstarts.] [Footnote 152: The good, or benediction.]