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bröught by the Black-St «, and thtir H&rd Diet and Usege, begets tbitCorruption. Othcr judge, That the Commonalty there, Feeding, for thegreatest part of Summer, on Cucumbers and Melans, and Drinking Waterupon them, withouc the use of Helps to Correct the Crudities, Tali intoMalignant and Peßilential 1'evers. But the Physicians generally Conclude,That the Air of Conftanttnople is Infected by tbe NortkhEast-Winds , whichBlowcommonly for 3 Months, beginning about the Summer Solßtce, anfingfrom Unwholsome Marfhes in Tartary and Mufcovy, and pafimg over theBlack-Sea, (a Place known to abound with Fflgr) bring with them cer-tain Dispositions tending to Corruption; which Working upon Bodieg aUready Prepared by Bad Diet, may well be judg’d, they sey, to be theCause of this Distemper.

Besides the other uses of Opium in Tttrky, ’tis common in Arabia to CueeHorscs wich ic of the Gnping of the Guts.

As to the Turkj Way of Dreßing Leatbtr , it is to be observ’d, that their.Leather iz noching so Strong and Serviceab/e as that in England : an afTur’dProot whereof is the Wearing. And though it be commonly Reported,that the Leatbtr in these Parts, though Thin and Supple, will Hold outWater : yet this is to be Understood, that the Tttrks in their Winttr-Boots,between the Lining and the Leather, put a Sear^Clotb, which bcing cu-riously sow’d in the Seams, will keep out Water, though you put themin it for divers Hours together. In Cleaning of their Leather, they useLime and Album Gracum ; and instead of Bark of 7reer, they employ Va-loma, a fort of Acom growing on the Oaks. I am perswaded that ourAtoms in England, if they could be Spar’d for it, woujd perform the likeEffect, and perhaps Better, seeing that many times the Valonia Bums the Lea-tber so much as to make it little Serviceahle : whereas our Atoms are pro-bably more Temperate, and so might better serve the Turn.

Medieal Öbser-vtttons tn tbeNorthern Coun-tties-, by Dr.Phil.Lloyd. n, t §6.

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XXV. Balnea n uspiam frequentiora sont quatn in Litbuania : Balneumingrelli postquam largiter Sudarunt, Cucurbitas sibi apponi faciunt, aut vir-gis Tergum caedunt usque ad insignem Ruborem. Inter Cofatos quoque fiquis graviter infirmatur, Balneum ingreditur, & Corpus tegunt certis Her-bis, Partique Dolenti applicant certum Cornu Cavum ad Vesicam attrahen-dam, qua rupta effluit Itbor varii saepe Coloris, Flavi, Viridis, & Nigri, &Patiens convalescit’» Varietas aurem ista Colorum , Herbis quibus Patienstegitur aut Cornu Fuco aliquo imbuto ad scribi debet. Cofatorttm quoqueCura multum in Aqua-Vita, aut Jusculis Acidis cum Oleo & Pipere adSudorem eliciendum, consistit: nec abstinent in Diaeta a Carnibus cum Aceto& Caepis coctis, quod Bigost vocant. Sicuti autem istae Nationes Pbarmactu-ticanon multum aestimant, ita vice verso sunt prodigales quoad ea quae exFonte Chirurgico petunmr, ut Vtn. Seht. usum Sanguisugarum (quas etiam Pa-lato & Gingivis intro applicant) Fonticulos , & Trepanationem ; cujus ususest valde frequens in Suecia bono cum succeflu : habent enim Sueci Capitasatis Dura 6 c Ursina. Apud Mufcovitas usus Herbae Tbea ob viciniam cum

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