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  • One compounded incense of aloes-wood and sugar, while another was divesting him of part of his clothes;
  • And another felt his pulse, to see how it was beating; and another was smelling his mouth, 265
  • To see whether he had drunk wine or eaten beng or hashish: the people (having exhausted every resource) remained in despair at his insensibility.
  • So they speedily brought the news to his kinsfolk—“Such and such a person is lying there in a state of collapse;
  • No one knows how he was stricken with catalepsy, or what it was that led to this public exposure.”
  • That stout tanner had a brother, (who was) cunning and sagacious: he came at once in hot haste.
  • (With) a small quantity of dog's dung in his sleeve, he cleft (his way through) the crowd and approached (the senseless man) with cries of grief. 270
  • “I know,” said he, “whence his illness arises: when you know the cause (of a disease), the (means of) curing (it) is manifest.
  • When the cause is unknown, the remedy for the illness is difficult (to find), and in that (case) there are a hundred grounds to which it may be referred;
  • (But) when you have ascertained the cause, it becomes easy: knowledge of causes is the means of expelling ignorance.”