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 the disorder, than heating medicines applied to the same purpose?" I smiled upon reading this hint, for I remembered a dream which might easily have tempted a Mahommedan physician to try the experiment. It stands thus in a diary or rather noctuary of dreams, which would have been exceedingly curious if the writer had not been as liable to forget them as Nebuchadnezzar, and without the advantage of having a Daniel to remember them for him. "Dec. 15, 1806. I was reading in my dream of a Doctor Bocardo who had discovered a mode of curing fevers, by putting the patients into what he called one of his Burning Hells. It was a place heated to the greatest degree that life could bear, and the extreme heat decomposed the matter of the disease."

The Friars de Propagandâ Fide at Cairo, appoint two of their number to visit the sick and to administer extreme unction to those of their persuasion who