distempers before my departure, came to me, and carried me home with him, desiring me to live with them until my business, which caused me to come back, were done, wherein really they did me a very great kindness. For I having very well torn my cloaths, which never came from my back in half a year’s time, I had there an opportunity to rest myself and to procure myself some new ones. _I thank the Almighty God for his many mercies and favours bestowed on me, and the assistance he graciously afforded me in this voyage, returning him praise, honour and glory, ~&c.~_ CHAP. XI. _Of the ~Turkish~ Physicians and Apothecaries; of my comrade ~Hans Ulrich Krafft~ of ~Ulm~’s hard Imprisonment. Of the great danger that I was in, in the towns of ~Aleppo~ and ~Tripoli~. Of the murdering of some Merchants, and what else did happen when I was there._ At my return to _Aleppo_, where my business obliged me to stay a while, I came to understand, that during my absence, several _Italians_ and _French-men_ were in their sickness but very slightly served by the _Jews_ their Physicians; wherefore I did not only soon recover my former acquaintance and practice by them, but might have also stept into great business with the _Turks_; for I was presently so well known, that I had much to do to excuse my self with discretion to get off of them, that I might escape their anger and displeasure, which I must have got, if I had served them never so faithfully, which I knew several had before me found by experience. Wherefore at the instance of several good friends, I only cured two great persons, whereof one was a _Georgian_, and at that time _Sangiack_ of _Jerusalem_, which were very well pleased with me, and requited me accordingly. The Physicians generally in these parts, agree before hand for the cure with their patients for a certainty, according to the condition of the patient and his distemper, and have security for their money, but yet it is not paid to them before the patient is cured. They have a great many Physicians, but they are very unskilful, chiefly the _Turks_, which know none but their own language, and so cannot read the authors of Physick that have writ in another language as the _Jews_ can. But seeing that the _Jews_ are very much addicted to covetousness, they endeavour rather to promote their own interest than that of their patients; so that the _Turks_ are but slightly provided with Physicians, and therefore rather die like flies, than take advice of their Physicians, chiefly of the _Jews_, which are not contented with a small reward; to this add also that the _Turks_ never put any confidence in the _Jews_, and esteem their counsel but little; and besides, they believe that God hath already pre-ordained every one his death, so that he that is born to be drown’d cannot be hang’d. And besides all this, the _Jews_ do not stick close to them in time of necessity, but fly presently, and first of all in time of