1 costly medicines, for the ise of the troops, See. an ex¬
2 pense which might bo almost entirely avoided, if the
3 physicians there were acquainted with the properties
4 of tiie native plants and drugs.
5 When I went to Lahore the second time, I was, as
6 before, appointed Physician to the Court, and also
7 Superintendent of the gunpowder-mill and gun-manu-
8 factory. The Dar-id-Shefa (hospital) in the city,
9 was under the direction of two brothers, Azcez-oo-
10 Deen and Noor-oo-Deen, both rich faqueers, and the
11 government paid for the medicines which were daily
12 distributed there; but, although I made some experi¬
13 ments on my new system, at nay owrt expense, yet,
14 my opportunities were very limited, as it was not
15 within my province to attend the Dar-ul-Shefa of the
16 faqueers. When the English carno, however, they shut,
17 up the gun and powder manufactories, and ordered the
18 Durbar to erect a public hospital outside the city.
19 The management of this establishment was entrusted
20 to me, and I then obtained the long-desired oppor¬
21 tunity of continuing my experiments, uncontrolled, in
22 tin: .new method of treatment, and on a large scale,
23 until the annexation of the country, in May 1841); the
24 results of Which surpassed my most sanguine antici¬
25 pations.
26 ATv waiting-room was constantly filled with patients,
27 attracted not only by the inviting appearance and sweet,
28 taste- of the medicines (lozenges), and the (to them)
29 pretty wooden boxes in which they were delivered;
30 hut also, by the efficacy which they found these bon¬
31 bons to possess. The establishment presented a curi¬
32 ous aspect. My department, more resembling, in its