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great alarm, to tell me that his wife had become almost 

 mad, and that they had to use great efforts to prevent her 

 from throwing herself out of the window. But this was her 

 last paroxysm, at least she had no more during my stay at 

 Constantinople. The dose of pulsatilla which I administered 

 to her, was one drop of the third dilution on a lump of 

 sugar ; the tincture I had brought with me from Vienna. 

 At that period, the prince Abdool Mesjeet ( now Sultan ) 

 fell dangerously sick, and I was told that his royal father had 

 dismissed all the physicians, English, French, Greek and Turk, 

 on account of their,^ unsuccessful treatment, and that my re- 

 putation and fortune would be established if I succeeded in 

 curing him. I replied that my rule was — "Noli accedere, nisi 

 vocatus," adding, that only on the request of the Sultaa 

 would I undertake to attend the royal prince ; his majesty, 

 however, was fortunate enough to find a physician who per- 

 formed the cure in a few days. The Sultan ordered those 

 doctors who had attended his son formerly, to make their 

 appearance again in the seraglio, and qresented him to them, 

 asking whether they thought he was perfectly recovered. 

 They expressed their astonishment at this unexpected and 

 sudden recovery, and wished much to see that miraculous 

 doctor, who had performed such a cure, in so short a time, 

 The Sultan opened the door of a side room, out of which 

 there issued an Armenian lady, in Turkish costume, whom 

 he presented to them, smiling, as the miraculous doctor to 

 whom his son owed his recovery, to the shame of the 

 assembled doctors. To bestow on her greater honor, he 

 ordered it to be publicly declared in all the Christian church- 

 es, that Mariam Khatoon ( Lady Mary ) had saved the life 

 of the royal prince and was the only person who could cure 

 the geli?ijik, that being the Turkish term, derived from gelin^ 

 bride, and means the bride's disease. In Greek it is called 

 nymphizze ; it is a kind of cachexia, or hydrops alba. The 

 royal Prince caught it in consequence of the measles, and 

 they were in fear for his life, as his younger brother had 

 died of the measles, having been improperly treated and bled 

 during the disease. 



