The Travels of Pedro Teixeira: With His Kings of Harmuz, and Extracts from His Kings of Persia (Classic Reprint)

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Judging by his frequent references to drugs and their effects, and by the fact of his being present on the occasion mentioned on p. 233, infra, I cannot help thinking that he was a physician. This seems to be supported by the incident related in chap. Ix of the Wage (p. 96, infra). Moreover, in his Kings of Persia (bk. 1, chap. Xxxv) Teixeira describes at some length the practices of physicians in different countries of the East, mostly from his own experience. I think it is probable that Teixeira accompanied the various expeditions mentioned below in a medical capacity. Mr. Sinclair, writing to me, says I agree with you in supposing him to have been a physician rather an 'irregular practitioner' probably, and concerned in the drug trade, and probably a speculator in gems.

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