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European physicians, that being the panacea Invariably 

 resorted to by the latter, when they are at a loss what to do 

 with their patients. 



I have already mentioned the asylum for lunatics which 

 I established at Lahore, and will now inform the reader of 

 the origin of that establishment. 



Major Mac Gregor, the director of the police at Lahore, 

 on passsing the bazaar on horseback, was one day stopped by 

 a woman, who was believed to be insane. On account of 

 this accident, the Resident issued an order that the durbar 

 should establish an asylum for such persons. I was consulted 

 upon the subject, and it was resolved that such patients 

 should be received into my hospital. Accordingly, many 

 lunatics were brought there, and they were generally 

 followed by a great many curious spectators. I succeeded 

 in curing, in the course of two months, the first five in- 

 dividuals under my superintendence, which fact I communi- 

 cated to the Rajah Teja Sing, and he order-ed me to present 

 them to the assembly at the Residency of Anarkullee : 

 which I did. But they manifested no desire to see them, and 

 looked upon the matter with indifference, by which I began 

 to perceive that my stay at Lahore was near its end, and that 

 the best thing I could do was to return to Europe. Neither 

 did I think it necessary to wait for the arrival of my 

 assistants, whom I had, with the permission of the govern- 

 ment, requested to come over ; namely, an apothecary and 

 a surgeon, from Europe. Both of these gentlemen had 

 received from me 3,000 florins for the expenses of their 

 journey, and I intended also to pay their salaries from my 

 own private purse ; for as my health was on the decline, in 

 consequence of the many affairs to which I had to attend, 

 I was really longing for some relief. 



The indifference shown to me, however, in the Residency, 

 did not prevent me from presenting the restored lunatics to 

 the native durbar at the fortress, and I was ordered to send 

 them to their respective homes. The woman who stopped 

 the police director at the bazaar I presented to Major ]\Iac 

 Gregor when he was in the Kotchery ( office ). They had 

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