1 the same man returned, bringing back the box I had
2 given him, and asked for some more of the lozenges,
3 for one of his friends, as the- previous supply had been
4 of much service. The paper on which T had written
5 the symptoms of the disease the remedy (levs), and
6 the date when I had given it, was still in the box.
7 Tire man assured me that he came from Loodiana, a
8 distance of 140 miles, that he had no other business
9 in Lahore, and that he intended to return immediately.
10 A long journey, thought I, to take 1 °r a few lentils
11 which [ had that day prepared.
12 To avoid mistakes in the application of remedies (one
13 messenger often applying for medicines for three or
14 lour patients), I made use of larger and smaller boxes
15 of different colors; each of which contained a paper,
16 whereon was noted the principal symptoms of the dis¬
17 ease, the name of the remedy, the quantity, how to be
18 taken, and the date on which it was delivered. It may
19 easily be conceived, that, as J sometimes did not see
20 the patients, it was dillicult tot form a diagnosis, espe¬
21 cially in such cases as cutaneous diseases and affections
22 of the eye. For instance, l once sent a remedy for blind¬
23 ness, and received the agreeable intelligence that the
24 patient had rccovere*. his sight; but, 1 confess, to this
25 day, T am not aware what the disease of the eye was;
26 probal ly, Amaurosis. Besides the afore-men tinned occu¬
27 pations) f received an order from tire Durbar to establish
28 an hospital in the jail of Lahore also, which was on the
29 same spot whereon, a short time before, I bad erected
30 the powder-mill. During the last two years of my
31 office (1848 and 1840) out of 800 prisoners, only
32 twenty-one patients died in the space of twelve months.