84 TIIIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



The voyage from London to Hamburg, which I performed 

 in a steamer, lasted a day longer than ordinary, and was one 

 of the most dreadful and annoying I have ever experienced; 

 We .were overtaken by a tempest, by which the vessel 

 was tossed about in such a manner that all the passengers 

 suffered from sea-sickness. If I say that our feelings 

 were those of a person whose bowels are being cut through 

 "with sharp knives, the comparison would remain far behind 

 the real fact. At Berlin, I met with an old friend, 

 Doctor Ehrenberg, the naturalist, whom I accompanied 

 many years ago to the ruins of Balbeck ; he was in 

 good health, and we conversed about that journey ; but 

 Doctor Hemprich, his then travelling companion, had 

 already left this world. According to Hahnemann's advice, 

 I introduced myself, at Kothen, to Doctor Lehman, from 

 whom I bought a considerable quantity of homceopathic 

 medicines. From Kothen I went to Leipsic, Dresden and 

 Toplitz, at which place was that celebrated congress of 

 the Emperors of Austria and. Russia, the King of Prussia, 

 and the most celebrated diplomatists, as also a great number 

 of the elite of the nobility. It may easily be imagined, 

 that on such an occasion there was no lack of festivals 

 and amusements, in which I took some share, as I met 

 with a very kind reception, owing, perhaps, to my oriental 

 costume. 



From Toplitz I returned to Kronstadt, my native coun- 

 try, in order to pass the carnival there among my relations. 

 In the spring of the year 1836, I went to Vienna, on 

 particular business, and I stayed there till the autumn. 

 In the summer of the same year, the long-dreaded guest, 

 cholera, was raging in that capital. I myself felt the first 

 symptoms of that dreadful and destroying epidemic. I 

 had spasms and a diarrhcea ; I therefore lost no time in 

 applying my remedies, taking, every half-hour, a homoeo- 

 pathic dose of ipecacuanha. This remedy proved quite 

 efficacious, and I was fortunate enough to be entirely 

 recovered in the space of six hours. 



As there are many substitutes ior ipecacuanha, I think 



