A Visit to the Court of Morocco, by Arthur Leared,
M.D. (Sampson Low and Co.), is a most entertaining narrative of a visit paid by the author to Mequinez and Fez, in the suite of the Portuguese Ambas- sador. It is not often that such an opportunity occurs; but a Portu- guese envoy seems a persona grata in Morocco, and the author had opportunities which seldom fall in the way of European travellers. One opportunity he had in a measure which exceeded his desires, that of medical practice. He describes with much humour the effect of prescribing seidlitz powders unmixed. This effect was of the moss satisfactory kind. The patient was convinced that the startling phenomena which followed could be due to nothing less than the sudden departure of an evil spirit, and as imagination is a powerful curative agent, was proportionably benefited.
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