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THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST.
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with his hands ; his organs of speech being paralysed to
such a degree, that he was not able to utter a single arti-
culate sound, and other means of imparting his thoughts
were not in his possession, as he never had learned to
write.
From time to time I had occasion to relate many of the
cures effected by the new method of homoeopathy, by the
aid of which I had cured myself in Vienna of the cholera,
and lately in Hindoostan of the plague. Although they
did not doubt the truth of my assertions, it was not with-
out difficulty that they could prevail on themselves to
trust me with the treatment of the maharajah, because the
favourable season—it being spring—allowed the native
physicians to rely on other trials which they had to make :
meanwhile I succeeded in some homoeopathic cures quite
to my satisfaction. But the greatest sensation produced,
was by a cure which I undertook at the request of the
minister, raja Dhyan Sing. He committed to my medical
care a native of Cashmere, Aboo Ibrahim, commander of
his jesails ( camel-artillery ), in whose head, ten years
previously, a bullet had been lodged, at an affair with the
Affghans, and which no native surgeon had been able to
extract, and in consequence he was paralysed on one side.
I trepanned him, and extracted the bullet, which was
stuck beneath the skull, and pressed the brain, without, how-
ever, affecting that organ. My patient having been a
drunkard, and troubled with indigestion in consequence of
his weakened stomach, I administered to him some physic,,
to accelerate his recovery ; and I succeeded in restoring
him to perfect health, in the short space of two months.
When relieved from his hemiplegy, I presented him to the
minister, and he introduced him to the maharaja.
Meanwhile, the excessive heat had come on. At this
time the fakeer Azeez-oo-Deen came unexpectedly and
called on me, as the native physicians were unable to im-
prove the health 'of the maharajah. This man, who had
formerly been physician in ordinary to the king, told me
that the maharajah had never taken any remedy prescribed
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with his hands ; his organs of speech being paralysed to
such a degree, that he was not able to utter a single arti-
culate sound, and other means of imparting his thoughts
were not in his possession, as he never had learned to
write.
From time to time I had occasion to relate many of the
cures effected by the new method of homoeopathy, by the
aid of which I had cured myself in Vienna of the cholera,
and lately in Hindoostan of the plague. Although they
did not doubt the truth of my assertions, it was not with-
out difficulty that they could prevail on themselves to
trust me with the treatment of the maharajah, because the
favourable season—it being spring—allowed the native
physicians to rely on other trials which they had to make :
meanwhile I succeeded in some homoeopathic cures quite
to my satisfaction. But the greatest sensation produced,
was by a cure which I undertook at the request of the
minister, raja Dhyan Sing. He committed to my medical
care a native of Cashmere, Aboo Ibrahim, commander of
his jesails ( camel-artillery ), in whose head, ten years
previously, a bullet had been lodged, at an affair with the
Affghans, and which no native surgeon had been able to
extract, and in consequence he was paralysed on one side.
I trepanned him, and extracted the bullet, which was
stuck beneath the skull, and pressed the brain, without, how-
ever, affecting that organ. My patient having been a
drunkard, and troubled with indigestion in consequence of
his weakened stomach, I administered to him some physic,,
to accelerate his recovery ; and I succeeded in restoring
him to perfect health, in the short space of two months.
When relieved from his hemiplegy, I presented him to the
minister, and he introduced him to the maharaja.
Meanwhile, the excessive heat had come on. At this
time the fakeer Azeez-oo-Deen came unexpectedly and
called on me, as the native physicians were unable to im-
prove the health 'of the maharajah. This man, who had
formerly been physician in ordinary to the king, told me
that the maharajah had never taken any remedy prescribed