Besides the above gentlemen, we had two Greeks, the barber-doctors usually employed in Egypt, who visited the inhabitants, and before interment narrowly examined every body. These two made a daily report to the Board of Health of the number of deaths and of their inspection of the bodies; they likewise did other duties under Mr Blackwell. In order to take from our medical gentlemen, in the pest-houses, some of the most dangerous part of the duty, it was my wish to procure some of the Greek doctors of the country to reside in the pest-houses, to feel the pulses there, draw blood, open and dress buboes, &c. The most diligent search was made for those people, and very high pay was promised to them, but we could tempt none of them to live in our pest-houses: a plain proof of the opinion which they entertain of the contagious nature of the disease. The thirteen gentlemen first mentioned, were those only that were directly in the way of contagion, for, it became their duty to come into contact with the infected, and seven of them caught the infection, and four died. To the atmosphere of the disease all the medical gentlemen of the army were exposed, as they saw and examined the cases in the first instance; but, except from actual contact, there never appeared to be any danger. The sketch which I mean to give of the plague, I draw principally from the reports made to me by the surgeons of the army, and from a pretty voluminous correspondence with the gentlemen whose names have been already mentioned. From my own experience I hardly can venture to speak: it was very limited. Though I saw a great many cases, in the first stage of the disease, the number of cases which I treated throughout was very small; they were the cases which first appeared in the army, and my success in them leaves me little to boast of. The reports and statements of the different gentlemen I have compared together, and endeavoured to reconcile them by what I myself saw of many of the cases. I have generally given the names of the gentlemen by whom the different facts are related: I have always done this where the reports of two gentlemen disagreed. From the sources of which I am possessed, I think I can bring forward some new facts regarding the disease, particularly in the treatment. It is much to be regretted, that no traveller, acquainted with the modern practice with mercury and the analogous remedies, ever resided in the countries where this disease is endemic. In one circumstance, there is a very generally-prevailing opinion in regard to the plague, viz. that extremes of both heat and cold stop the progress of the contagion. If this be true, in regard to heat, it did not appear to be so in the army in Egypt in regard to cold. The period at which the plague raged the most was in the coldest months.