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This can be nothing but pride and conceit!" However I felt his

pulse and wrote him a prescription and continued to visit him for

ten days, at the end of which time he recovered and went to the

Hammam,[FN#573] whereupon the Viceroy gave me a handsome dress of

honour and appointed me superintendent of the hospital which is

in Damascus.[FN#574] I accompanied him to the baths, the whole of

which they had kept private for his accommodation; and the

servants came in with him and took off his clothes within the

bath, and when he was stripped I saw that his right hand had been

newly cut off, and this was the cause of his weakliness. At this

I was amazed and grieved for him: then, looking at his body, I

saw on it the scars of scourge stripes whereto he had applied

unguents. I was troubled at the sight and my concern appeared in

my face.