Note 145 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]

Arab. “Akwà min dahni ’l-lauz.” These unguents have been used in the East from time immemorial whilst the last generation in England knew nothing of anointing with oil for incipient consumption. A late friend of mine, Dr. Stocks of the Bombay Establishment, and I proposed it as long back as 1845; but in those days it was a far cry from Sind to London.