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asylum received some benefit from that remedy, I must at the 
same time state my opinion that the account they gave of their 
own improvement ought not to be relied upon implicitly. I 
allowed them almost always to tell their own story, without 
putting leading questions to them, and I uniformly desired 
them to say nothing but the truth, and to inform me with 
equal readiness of the harm as of the good which they might 
think the medicine had done them; yet they seldom or never 
acknowledged any harm from it. It was doubtless a great 
consolation to these people to find themselves visited in their 
wretched and forlorn situation by a stranger, who was endea- 
vouring to alleviate their bodily sufferings by administering 
to them what he hoped might prove a remedy; and this was 
likely to excite a desire on their part to afford him in their 
answers every satisfaction they could, so as to induce him to 
prolong his attendance on themselves, while a denial of any 
good effect from the medicine might, in their apprehensions, 
lead to the discontinuance of his visits, and to their being again 
as it were abandoned to their unhappy fate. But these obser- 
vations do not apply to the mulatto female Lazar, since she 
was under no similar privations; and I regard her statements 
as sincere and worthy of credit. One of the effects she expe- 
rienced it may be worth while to notice here. When she had 
taken about six drachms of the powder, I found that three 
small ulcers on her left hand had healed; and she said that she 
had more of feeling and motion, both in her hands and the 
joints than before; but she also said that, prior to my seeing 
her, she "used to feel great heat all over the skin, and mostly 
on the face and hands," which generally increased in the eve- 
ning, and continued to such a degree through the night as to 
make her very restless, and to deprive her almost entirely of 
sleep, and that the only means by which she could abate that 
heat and get any rest was by bathing in cold water; but that 
now she had "much less heat over her, and was no longer 
obliged to bathe at night, but could lie down and get to sleep 
at once, and enjoy a sleep nearly natural." Soon after this, 
she was hindered for eight or ten days from taking the pow- 
