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Excerpt from The Present State of Turkey, or a Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire: The Finances, Military and Naval Establishments; The State of Learning, and of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; The Manners and Domestic Economy of the Turks and Other Subjects of the Grand Signor, Etc; Etc I have constantly observed that they consider the skill of'a Medicine. Physician as of the nature of sorcery, and expect from him solu tions of difficulties which could only be obtained by supernatural means. I have read ofa physician, who acquired great reputation with his patient, from ascertaining the nature of his food by the motion of his pulse: and everv pretender to medicine is expected to announce, from the first visit, with the precision of a sooth sayer, the minute when death, or a favourable crisis, is to relieve his patient. Their surgery is rude, from want of science, of skill, Surgery. And ofinstruments. But though Christian surgeons are in general employed by persons of rank, there is a Persian at Constantinople, who has acquired great reputation, even among the Franks, for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.