At the main entrance of the mosques gather groups of men and women with sick children in their arms, waiting until the prayers are over and the worshippers file out; for the prayer-laden breath of the truly devout is powerful to exorcise the demons of disease, and the child over whom the breath of the worshipper has passed has fairer surety of recovery than can be gained from all the nostrums and charms of the Syed and Hakim.

By April 9th I was at Nowshera, and by three o'clock on the following morning, with head shaved, a weak solution of caustic and walnut juice applied to hands and face, and wearing the dress peculiar to the Meahs or Kaka Khels, and in company with Hosein Shah, I sallied out as Mir Mahomed or Hakim Sahib.

Shao Baba took up the matter, and not until the Dir chief had written contradicting the statement and certifying that he had asked my companions to bring from India a hakim, were suspicions allayed.

" "According to an Arabian author, Zeirreddien Mukhdom, who is supposed to have been sent to assist the zamorins and the Mahomedans in India, in their wars with the Portuguese, Malabar is then said to have been divided among a multiplicity of independent princes or rajahs, whom he calls Hakims, some of whom commanded over one or two hundred men, and others one, ten, fifteen, or even as high as thirty, thousand, or upwards.

Medical science is at a very low ebb in Persia; purging and bleeding are the two remedies most resorted to by the native hakim.

When Abdullah's turn came, the police officer surveyed him from head to foot, saying: "I have heard of you before; what is your occupation?" "Sir, I am a Hakim (doctor).

Sir Kenneth's squire had been suffering dangerously under the same fever, and the leech, El Hakim, had ministered to him not two hours before, and already he was in a refreshing sleep.

Haste, De Vaux, fetch the Hakim hither.

Come, Sir Hakim, to the work, to the work.

"His blood beats calm as an infant's; so throbs not theirs who poison princes," said the king, "De Vaux, whether we live or die, dismiss this Hakim with honour.

" "I must obey thee, Hakim," said the king.

my learned Hakim," said the king, "come, I hope, to tax our generosity.

" The females hurried from the tent, and El Hakim made his humble prayer for the knight about to die.

"Hakim, thou hast chosen thy boon, and I may not, king-like, refuse thee.

Is there aught else in which I may do thee pleasure?" "Let me touch that victorious hand," said the sage, "in token that should Adonbec El Hakim hereafter demand a boon of Richard of England, he may do so.

"May thy days be multiplied," answered the Hakim.

"Strange pertinacity," said the King, gazing after him as he departed, "in this Hakim to interfere between this Scot and the chastisement he has merited so richly.

That I should lose my learned Hakim and find him again in my royal brother?

As we passed the shop of the European hakim, yes, the kimmish, my brother leapt down and entering the shop asked questions.

Oh, the cleverness of these European hakims,' and he raised hands and eyes in wonder as he sighed piously.

They cannot be compared in interest with the splendid "Hakim's Baths," at Fatehpur Sikri.

They are worth seeing, though not so fine as the so-called HAKIM'S BATHS.

Undoubtedly they were used by Akbar himself, and they derive their present name from their close proximity to the quarters occupied by the Hakims, or doctors.

HAKIM or HAKEM, a Mohammedan name for a ruler, a physician, or a wise man.

MOKANNA, AL, "the veiled one," a name given to Hakim ben Allah, who wore a veil to hide the loss of an eye; he professed to be an incarnation of the Deity and to work miracles; found followers; founded a sect at Khorassan; seized some fortresses, but was overthrown at Kash A.D. 780, whereupon he took poison.