The Cashmere Shawl; An Eastern Fiction Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... to the virtues of the gum and bezoar, so he administered a second dose of the latter, and loosened the camel's tethers. Then in order to afford further relief, and help nature to get rid of the burning juices, by transpiration, he ordered the tent to be closed, so as to exclude all air, loaded the patient's couch with an additional number of skins, and drenched him with a portion of milk nearly scalding hot. Thus wisely intending to drive out one fire, by the aid of another. But who can expect any good on a Wednesday? Ere long, poor Hossein began to writhe, roll his eyes, gnash his teeth, kick and blaspheme after a terrible manner, and as his strength seemed to increase with the decrease of reason, nothing but again tying him down and swaddling up his body, like a mummy, prevented him dashing himself to pieces. Most potent nastiness did he swallow. All the unsainted madmen in the world could not have uttered more abominations. But every thing was done for him that art could devise, and as his body chose to be perverse, Abdoul consoled himself with the reflection, that witchcraft alone could have counteracted the infallible antidotes he had employed; he therefore crossed his arms, stroked down his beard, and ejaculating, "Lahnet be Shaitan curses on Satan, curses on their fathers, mothers, and all their kindred may their wives be three times divorced, and their daughters never he married ' he quitted the sick couch, determining to lose no time in seeking the pious hermit, on whose powers he firmly trusted for a counter charm. The dim, ruby light that precedes the dawn scarcely enabled one to distinguish a black from a white thread, ere the shepherd rose, said his prayer, and made ready for his visit to the glen, called the valley of...