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The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.Russell, Alexander

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The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.

Name: The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.
Author: Russell, Alexander

Russell, Alexander

Aleppo (Syria) -- Early works to 1800; Natural history -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800; Plague -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800

_Crabs_, abundance of at Aleppo, 77.

  _Curds_, a race of people in Syria, some account of them, 250.


  D.

  _Dancing_, not esteemed a fashionable accomplishment among the Turks,
        92.

  _Diarrhœas_ and _Dysenteries_, frequent at Aleppo, 192, 200, 203.
    Their symptoms and cure, 192.
    In the plague, 236.

  _Diseases epidemical_, at Aleppo, from 1742 to 1747, inclusive; some
        account of, 190-212.
    In 1752, 212-218.
    In 1753, 218-223.

  _Divan_ among the Turks described, 4.

  _Dogs_ of several kinds, in great plenty at Aleppo, 60.
    Not subject to madness, _ibid._

  _Dromedary_, a beast of burden in Syria, an account of, 57.

  _Druggoman_ at Aleppo, who, 132.

  _Dysentery_, produced from bad bread, 212.


  E.

  _Emeers_ among the Turks, who, 122.
    Their priviledges, _ibid._

  _English_ at Aleppo, some account of, 135.

  _Europeans_ at Aleppo, some account of, 132, 133, 134.
    Why not so liable to epidemics as the natives, 138.
    Subject of a fever on their first arrival, 140.

  _Exercises_, little used among the Turks, 88.
    Some of them described, 89.


  F.

  _Falcons._ See _Hawking_.

  _Fever_, acute at Aleppo, 190.
    Its symptoms and method of cure, _ibid._
    Intermittent, its progress and cure, 99, 200, 202.
    Inflammatory among children, 201.
    Method of cure, _ibid._
    Malignant, 202.
    Symptoms and cure, 203.
    Putrid, its symptoms, 206, 207.
    Cure, 207.
    A different kind of fatal fever, 207.
    Its symptoms, 208, 209.
    Cure, 209, 210.
    Continual, 212, 213, 218, 219, 220.
    Symptoms and cure, 215, 216.
    Frequent among children, 217.
    Concomitants, _ibid._
    Continual, of a more violent kind, 220.
    Symptoms, 220, 221.
    Cure, 222.
    Summer fever among children, _ibid._
    Continual fever, very infectious, 223.
    Fever, violent in the plague, 230.

  _Fish_, seldom used by the Turks, 72.
    The different sorts at Aleppo, 73-77.

  _Flowers_, a great variety about Aleppo, some account of, 27, 28, 29.

  _Fowls_, tame, several kinds used for food at Aleppo, 63.
    Those of the game kind, 63, 64, 65.

  _Foxes_, found in Syria, 66.

  _French_, their number at Aleppo, 132.

  _Frogs_ are in great abundance about Aleppo, 55.
    Used for food by the christians, 56.
    Some tree-frogs, 63.

  _Fruits_, various kinds about Aleppo, an account of, 20, 21, 22, 29.

  _Fuel_, at Aleppo, account of, 7.

  _Funeral rites_ and _service_ at Aleppo described, 115-119.

  _Furunculi_ at Aleppo, frequent, 222.


  G.

  _Games_, of what kinds used at Aleppo, 91.
    Not practised for money by the Turks, 92.

  _Gardens_ about Aleppo, some account of, 9.

  _Goats_, two kinds about Aleppo, 52, 53.
    Used chiefly for their milk, 53.

  _Gonorrhæa_, the Turks ignorant of its nature or the cure, 143.

  _Goose_, a distemper at Aleppo described, 140, 141.
    Its cure, 141.

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