gg THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



of the patient were anxious to try homoeopathy, he consent- 

 ed, and I administered, in his presence, three lilliputian 

 pills of Aranea diadema (X"'^^ ), and then took my leave. 

 When I called on my patient in the morning, he told me 

 that he had passed a quiet night, that his former physician 

 had already been there, and on hearing that no bleeding 

 had taken place, he had prescribed for him some pills ; 

 but he again and again repeated, that he felt no inclina- 

 tion to take them, as he preferred my medicine, which had 

 proved so beneficial. Whilst I was preparing the medica- 

 ment, the doctor, who was an Italian, came in, and was about 

 to fasten a quarrel on me ; but old M. Shabert took him 

 by the arm and led him into another room, from which 

 he disappeared, and I saw him no more. I repeated the 

 medicine for eight days, at the end of which time he was 

 completely recovered. I must observe here, that the Aranea 

 diadema was prepared by Doctor Lehmann, at Kothen, 

 whose medicines, as I have already mentioned, were 

 recommended to me by Hahnemann. 



What did the surgeon do in the meanwhile ? To show 

 that the recovery of the young man was the effect of his 

 treatment, he ordered a dog to be brought from the bazaar, 

 and cut through its crural artery, and then applied his 

 styptic ( creosote ) ; but seeing that the wound did not heal, 

 he allowed the dog to escape, and a short time afterwards 

 the animal was found dead in the street. 



Another case occurred in the above-mentioned family, 

 with a female, which may serve as an example how small 

 homoeopathic doses not only produce effects, but sometimes 

 cause great and beneficial excitement. 



A sister of the young Shabert was troubled for many 

 years with a megrim. This evil was accompanied with a 

 nervous pain in the face, which made itself sensible at 

 intervals of three or four days, in the early part of the 

 day, like a disguised fever. In the moment of one of these 

 paroxysms, I administered to her a dose of pulsatilla ; but 

 afterwards she became so much worse, that her husband, 

 Siguor Salzani, came to me at ten o'clock at night, ia 



