Crossword-Solution: BARAS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The only description of leprosy known in Al-Hijaz is that called "Al-Baras": it appears in white patches on the skin, seldom attacks any but the poorer classes, and is considered incurable.

The city is very rich, and food so cheap that fourteen libras of beef cost one real; another real buys eight libras of fish; six libras of sugar, one real; and fowls, salt pork, and all other things in the same proportion; of salt alone, they have given us, on this last arrival of the ships, three hundred and seventy baras [i.e., bahars]; also a goodly supply of wine for the mass; and linen, which is very cheap.

Semblant, espoir, en fera; mËs S'il pooit voler jusqu'as nuÎs, Ou si haut lever ses vÈuÎs, Qu'il pÈust d'ilec, sans chÈoir, Tous les faits des hommes vÈoir, Et s'apensast tout ‡ loisir, Si faudroit-il bien ‡ choisir En quel peril il est chÈus, S'il n'a tous ses baras vÈus Por soi garantir et tenser Dont fame se set porpenser.

Baras had himself been a sufferer from {258} gastric discomfort, fullness after eating, eructations of gas, constipation, and general depression.

His daughter was attacked with consumption, and "in the moment my attention," says Baras, "was centered entirely upon my child, I thought no more of myself, and I was cured." Brain Workers and Indigestion.--Perhaps the best proof of how necessary it is that people should not continue to occupy their intellect seriously during the time when digestion is going on, is to be found in the frequency with which complaints of indigestion occur in literary folk.