1 HISTORY 0l? THE SIKHS.
2 we decidedly objected, though willing to contimie
3 our own services as long as they might be re-
4 Galvanism was next tried, but this the Maharajah
5 did not approve of, and requested the 'electrical
6 shocks to be repeated at inter vals, which was accor¬
7 dingly done, and might eventually have been of
8 use, but the visit of Sir Henry Fane, on the occa¬
9 sion of the marriage of Nonehal Singh, interrupted
10 the course of experiments. We endeavoured,
11 during the course of operations, to explain the
12 wonderful rapidity of electricity, and in what way
13 the Maharajah might communicate through it, in
14 an instant of time, with the most distant parts of
15 the kingdom, but Ilunjeet Singh, though curious
16 on the subject, was rather sceptical on the latter
17 point.
18 To the use of medicine generally the Maharajah
19 expressed a marked dislike, and hardly ever took
20 any, unless it was administered by his favourite
21 physician, Azeezoodcen. He now conceived that
22 our remedies .were too powerful for himself and
23 his people; indeed, on one occasion, where we were
24 requested to prescribe for one of his soldiers, he
25 recommended the men to take only half the close
26 we thought necessary to recommend. He looked
27 upon English surgeons as skilful in operations, and
28 in one case where all the hakeems (native physi-
29 * The Maharajah \yas much amused at our charging ihe jar out &jF him,
30 ami discharging it through the Prime Minister.