Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old Government of France / C.S. Sonnini. Translated from the French [by W. Combe].

  • Sonnini, C. S. (Charles Sigisbert), 1751-1812.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old Government of France / C.S. Sonnini. Translated from the French [by W. Combe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ prof y ; a difeafe peculiar to them, and which, under a burning fky, ft might eaflly degenerate into leprofy In Zootomy, I flaall adduce, in proof of my ignorance, a fo- litary fadt, taken from the Dodlor’s able hiftory of the jerbo ü. “ Il a lieu de croire que Tac- “ couplement des jerbos a, comme “ celui des chats, des inflans dou- “ loureux, ou même que le gland, “ une fois gonflé dans la vulve, ne {e peut en être retiré qu’au bout de c~‘ quelque tems, ainfl qu’il arrive cc aux chiens.” Vol. i. p. 174. “ There is reafon to believe, that “ the copulation of the jerbos muft, “ like that of cats, be accompanied <£ with moments of pain, or even “ that the gland, once interted into “ the female organ, cannot be for (t fome time extracted, as is the cafe “ with the canine fpecies.” Vol. i. P- ]57- The lively tranflation of Dr. Hunter abounds with fo many Hi- bernianifms and Gallicifms, that his readers might fufpedt him to be an Irifhman or a Frenchman, rather than a native of Great Bri- tain. The Gallicifms are fo frequent, that I may refer to almoft every page of the Dodlor’s produdlion. I cannot, however, fupprefs my admiration of the two following : “ Il y en a de toutes les nations, et *c leur affluence qui formoit epigram- (i me avec l’un des vœux des che- “ valiers étoit flngulièrement perni- “ cieufe aux équipages des vaif- M féaux,” &c. Vol. i. p. 66. ({ They (the courtefans of Malta) cc are the refufe of all nations ; and es their concourfe, which formed an ft epigram with one of the vows of the “ knights, was Angularly pernicious “ to the crews of fhips,” &c. Vol. i. p. 60 x. 1 Vol. iii. p. 292 of the original—P. 660 of this edition. u P. 104 of this edition. * P. 40 of this edition. ** Ces