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effects, especially upon ulcers and similar cases. This induc- 

 ed me to make some experiments in cases of this description, 

 in which I succeeded ; especially at the prisoners' hospital, 

 where two brothers had on their feet two cancerous ulcers, 

 which were completely eradicated, the one in four, and 

 the other in six weeks. At the same period, it happened 

 that several cases of sporadic cholera occurred ; and, having 

 ascertained the before-mentioned apparatus to be effica- 

 cious, and persoaded, as I was, of the benefit of my rings, 

 which are composed of the same materials — silver and zinc — 

 I determined to make an experiment with the apparatus 

 upon these cholera cases, which proved to be of the 

 greatest utility. It was quite natural that when I imagined I 

 had solved that enigmatical question — the positive method 

 of curing cholera — I should endeavour to put ray method in 

 practice during the raging of that epidemic in Vienna ; 

 and I accordingly made application to the Minister of the 

 Interior, soliciting him to allow me to attend some of the 

 cholera-patients at the hospital. The Minister consented ; 

 but the interval between my soliciting and obtaining the 

 permission was so long, that the real type of the disease no 

 longer existed : the cases were mere malignant cholera- 

 typhus. Scarcely one of those I saw at the hospital re- 

 covered. I only attended three patients. The first removed 

 the apparatus from her body, without any one being 

 cognisant of the fact, and died on the following day ; 

 the second was brought to the hospital in a senseless, 

 dying condition, so that I thought it unnecessary to apply 

 the plates ; and the third patient continued to exist until 

 the eleventh day. As the cholera-patients, however, with or 

 without appetite, were compelled to subsist on meat soups 

 containing parsley, celery, onions, &c. ; and the medicines 

 which were administered were prepared by their own 

 apothecary ; and as the disease was on the decline ; I 

 discontinued my attendance, without arriving at any de- 

 finite conclusion. 



At Lahore, I performed some operations while the patients 

 were under the influence of chloroform ; and among these 



