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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, anH pressed the brain, without, how- 

 ever, affectiag 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 



