Author, U: Atheneum, or Spirit of the English Magazines, Vol

Excerpt from The Atheneum, or Spirit of the English Magazines, Vol. 7: April to October, 1820

Vol. Finastas'ius a new series of adventures in the Tur kish capital: of these the reader will be enabled to form some notion, from a short paragraph detailing his mode of treatment while associated with a Jew ish quack doctor, who had abandoned the less profitable calling of an old clothesman, for that lucrative and well stocked profession.

The Jew (says our hero) was to carry his own Galen 1n the shape ofthe best halfof an old missal, stolen from a Capuchin, I undertook the medicine chest, with all its pills of starch, and all its powders of pipe-clay. The only thing I insisted upon as a sine qua non in the treaty, was not to appear tu my new character 1n any ofthe streets Ihad before frequented; and to this ultima tum the Jew readily enough agreed. Matters thus settled between us, I some what dolefully exchanged my apparel for a dress in unison with that of my principal, and, after vainly begging, ln gratitude for my friend Vasili' s advice, to have the honour of making upon him my first experiment in this new profes sion, walked away with my grotesque patron. Immediately we began stalk ing thro' all the lanes and by -streets of the capital; I, with a pace exactly reg alated by that of my master who walked before me, and both of us turning our heads constantly from right to left and from left to right, like weather cocks, to watch every call from a door or signal from a window; but full as much on the~alert to avoid old faces as to court the notice of new ones.

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