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Updated: June 12, 2025
And subsequently, by the continuance of the same medical gifts to the apostles and their successors, all exercised the same powers, and benefited by the same privileges as hakims.
It will not be necessary for me to stay with him, as the ladies of the harem can look after him; but I must remain in the next room, so as to be ready to run in, at once, should they see that the wound is bleeding again. I have asked the hakims to make a soothing potion, to aid him to sleep long and soundly. "As I went up to the side of the bed, Abu smiled.
Happily, though no doubt they must have felt somewhat jealous at my success with Abu, I have been able to do the hakims some service, put fees into their pockets, and at the same time benefited poor people here. I have told them that, just as I recognized the bottle of chloroform, so I have recognized some of the bottles from which the white hakims used to give powder to sick people.
I had begged the hakims to keep their attention fixed on what I was doing, in order that these also might see how the white doctor did such things. "When his son spoke, the Emir gave a gasp of relief. 'He lives, he murmured, as if even now he could scarcely believe that this was possible; and as he put his hand upon my shoulder it trembled with emotion.
All the serious cases I referred to the hakims, and confined myself simply to dressing and bandaging wounds, which had grown angry for want of attention. I always refused to accept fees, insisting that I was not a hakim, and simply afforded my help as a friend.
They saw I was a careful man, and I often made the eye wash, and put the other white powder up into little packets when they were busy, as fever and ophthalmia are the two most common complaints among the natives. "The hakims were immensely pleased, and both told me, afterwards, that both these medicines had done wonders.
For the first twenty-four hours I had remained always on watch; after that the hakims took their turns, I remaining in readiness to tighten up the tourniquet, should there be any rush of blood. I did not leave the Emir's house, but slept in a room close by that of the patient. "There was now, however, no longer need for my doing so.
The hakims were on the point of doing so, when I said: "'I will stay here for a few minutes, and will then come out and talk this matter over with you. I have been fortunate, indeed, in remembering so well what I saw.
The hakims will give you a soothing draught soon, and you can have cool drinks when you want them. "Things went on as well as I could have wished. In four or five days the threads came away, and I loosened the tourniquet slightly, and strapped up the edges of the wound, which were already showing signs of healing.
"'I have heard of such things being done by the Turkish hakims at Khartoum, but I did not believe them. It is against all reason. "'I have seen it done, my lord, I said. 'I do not say that I could take off a limb, as they did, but I am sure that the stuff would put anyone to sleep. "'I wish you to put it to the trial, the Emir said.
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