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Rh perceived that my feet began to become flexible, and so I continued the operation, and succeeded so far as to be able to put on my pantaloons and boots, and walk slowly towards my abode. There I arrived very late, ordered a warm bath to be prepared, and after half-an-hour's bathing went to bed, having previously drunk a glass of punch prepared with tea, which produced a good effect, and thus I fell asleep. In the morning, when I awoke, .my legs were restored to their former activity.

At the same period, while I was private physician to the English consul at Tripoli, there happened an extraordinary case. An organic defect of a young woman in labor required a Casarian operation to be made on her body, and I was appointed to perform it ; but the Greek bishop refused to give his consent thereto, because that operation was an uncommon one, and I could not guarantee her life. Even after the death of the poor woman, wife of Georgius Jani, the bishop again opposed the operation, by which the infant might have been saved. I and my friends, the twin brothers Katzifliss (scarcely twenty years of age, one of whom was Austrian, the other English consul ) often regretted the circumstance. At Bagdad there happened the following case : — the wife of an Armenian curate having been for eight months with child, had died in consequence of a scald. On both sides of the belly of the deceased a certain motion was visible for a long time, which caused some people to believe that she was about to bring forth twins, which they wished to save. They sent for me, but, to my grief, they came when all assistance was too late. I cite this unhappy accident of the poor woman, that it my serve as an example to those people who deal in spirits and other combustible articles, and as a warning to them to be cautious in their management The above-mentioned woman went upstairs late in the night, with a candle in her hand, and entered a room, to pour some brandy from a damejane ( a large glass jar, covered with straw ). Keeping the light too near to the spirits, they caught fire. Instead of covering the mouth of the