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tell to you. Well ſpoke, ſaid the Sultan, but if it is not more ſurprizing than that of little Hunch-back, do not you expect to live.

Day appearing, the Sultaneſs topped here; but reſum’d her Diſcourſe next Night as follows,

SIR, ſaid ſhe, the Jewiſh Phyſician, finding the Sultan of Caſgar diſpoſed to hear him, gave the following Relation.

SIR, when I was a Student of Phyſick, and juſt beginning the Practice of that noble Profeſſion with ſome Reputation, a Man flave called me to ſee a Patient in the Governor of the City’s Family. Accordingly, I went, and was carried into a Room, where I found a very proper handſome young Man mightily caſt down with his Condition: I ſaluted him, and ſat down by him; but he made no return to my Compliments, only a SIgn with his Eyes that he heard me, and thanked me. Pray, Sir, ſaid I, give your Hand, that I may feel your Pulſe. But inſtead of ſtretching out his Right he gave me his Left Hand, at which I was extremely ſurprized. This, thinks I to my ſelf, is a groſs Piece of Ignorance, that he does not know that People preſent their Right Hand, and not their Left to a Phyſician. However, I felt his Pulſe, and writ him a Receipt, and ſo took leave.

I continued my Viſits for nine Days, and every time I felt his Pulſe he ſtill gave me the Left Hand. On the tenth Day he ſeem’d to be pretty well, and ſo I preſcrib’d nothing for him but bathing. The Governor of Damaſcus, who was by, did, in Teſtimony of his being well ſatisfied with my Service, inveſt me with a very rich Robe, ſaying, he made me a Phyſician of the City Hoſpital, and Phyſician in ordinary to his Houſe, where I might freely eat at his Table when I pleaſed.

The young Man likewiſe ſhewed me many Civilities, and asked me to accompany him to the Bath. Accordingly we went together, and when his Attendants had undreſ-