Thirty-Five Years in the East. Adventures Discoveries Experiments and Historical Sketches Relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in Connection with Medicine Botany Pharmacy &c. Together with an Original Materia Medica and a Medical Vocabulary

whether in the blood-vessels or in the nerves in the lymphatic"system or in the cellular tissue in the gall or in the bladder in the spleen in the liver in the kidneys in the stomach or even in the intestinal canal we might then be able to detect their modus operandi also. [...] Every exertion was made to save the vessel; and at the commencement of the tempest when the mast went by the board it was found advisable to lighten the vessel by throwing the cargo into the deep. [...] to bring the stone down by introducing the fingers into the rectum and cutting it out through the perinceum ; but I preferred the apparatus altos where the stone is cut out from the bladder through the pyramdal muscle of the belly which produced a very great sensation and obtained for me the name of a skilful operator. [...] I agreed with the brothers of the bishop as to the amount they were to pay me for my attendance the half of which I received in advance for the medicines to be delivered the other half to be paid after the recovery of the patient from whose own hands I should receive it according11 to the abovmentioned custom. [...] After my return from Alexandria I fixed my abode on the eastern side of the Lebanon and began to practice in a little town named Sahli beautifully situated in theproximity of the valleyof Balbeck where the famous ruins of the temple of the sun (Heliopolis) notwithstanding the attacks of time rise from the ground like rocks and are admired by travellers as one of the most remarkable monuments