5/25 Even he laughed after a minute or two, when he had got himself thoroughly sewed up and called each bottle by its wrong name. "Sore eyes--broken leg--boils--knife-wound--let it be all one. Give episin salts--always episin. Then, if we are long in one place, so that a sick man comes a second time, swearing grievously because of episin, give croton. That person will not come again, but the fame of the _hakim_ will spread far and wide." "You'd much better teach me how a _hakim_ sits a camel," I suggested. |