Storia do Mogor 265.11.2

265.11.2

[194, an interpolated leaf.] A propos of what I have said, I will relate two cases which happened in my presence in connection with this chief physician. There was an Augustinian friar who fell ill of pains in the testicles combined with swelling. The pain he suffered was insupportable, and he had arrived almost at the point of death. The chief physician and the other proficients were unable to cure him. There was an old woman who lived close to the convent, who, hearing of the illness, came and offered to cure it. She applied some stewed leaves to the painful place, and took away the pain together with the swelling, and the good friar was completely restored to health. When the chief physician was told of this, he sent orders to imprison the charitable old woman, and to obtain her release she was forced to sell everything she had in her house, and thus buy off the chief physician's demands. From that time the poor old woman wandered through the streets in search of alms. There was a Hindu practitioner who knew a perfect cure for scrofula. The chief physician wanted to learn his secret, and sent the poor fellow to prison. He was informed that he would not recover his liberty until he had taught his secret to the physician. The timid Hindu resolved rather to die in prison than to divulge his secret. Such-like effects spring from the grant of power to ungrateful villains. [Page 195 is blank.]