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THE TRAVELS OF
LETTER XIV.
DEAR SIR,
THE Mahometans are, in general, a very healthful people: refraining from the uſe of ſtrong liquors, and accuſſtomed to a temperate diet, they. have but few diſeaſes, for which their own experience commonly finds ſome ſimple yet effectual remedy. When they are viſited by ſickneſs, they bear it with much compoſure of mind, partly through an expectation of removing their diſorder, by their own manner of treating it: but when they perceive their ma-
