_Phthisis_, air of Aleppo bad for it, 143.
_Physic_, and _Physicians_, very imperfect among the Turks, 97, 98.
Their practice trifling, 99, 100.
_Pigeons_, several kinds about Aleppo, account of, 65, 66.
Some employed as carriers, how trained, 66.
_Pipes_ for smoaking tobacco, different sorts of the Turks and
Persians described, 82, 83.
_Plague_ brought to Aleppo, 192.
Its symptoms, _ibid._
and method of cure, 192, 193.
Another plague, and its progress, 197, 198, 199.
Another, 201, 202.
From whence commonly brought, and which the worst, 225.
Intervals, 225, 226.
Progress, 226.
Its force in different seasons, 226, 227.
Not so violent as in Europe, 227.
Its violence checked by heat, 227, 228.
Not influenced by the moon, 228.
Relapse of the distemper frequent, _ibid._
The cause of numerous and terrible distresses, 228, 229.
Symptoms various in different, and sometimes in the same persons,
229.
Its general appearance and symptoms, 229-234.
Crisis, 234.
Uncertain prognostics, 235.
Other symptoms, 235-240.
Different opinions about the method of cure, whence, 240.
The manner of treating it, 242.
That which was most successful, 242-250.
Method used by the Europeans for their preservation from it,
250-255.
Manner of shutting up, 255-258.
Precautions after it, 259.
Sudden both in its increase and decrease, 259.
Rules to be observed by those who are among the infected, 260, 261.
_Plants_, a great variety of, produced about Aleppo at different
seasons, some account of them, 30-46.
_Pleurisies_ frequent at Aleppo, 196.
Concomitant symptoms, and method of cure, 196, 203.
_Ploughs_ and _Ploughing_ about Aleppo described, 16.
_Porcupines_, a few about Aleppo, 55.
Are sometimes ate by the Europeans, _ibid._
_Pox, Small_, of different kinds at Aleppo, 193.
Several of their symptoms, 193, 194.
Method of cure, 194, 204, 205, 206.
_Prayers_, stated times of, among the Turks, 107.
These very exactly observed by them, 119.
_Purging_, its use in the plague, 242, 243.
_Pulse_, its state in the plague, 230, 231.