1 while 1 made a cut along; the fistulous sore, which caused him
2 to l.»e senseless for the following thirty-six hours, and to suffer
3 with severe fever. My assiduous attendance accelerated the
4 radical cure of the fistula, his strength visibly increased, and
5 after a few months ho regained his original plumpness,
6 and, six years afterwards, when General Allard and his
7 family arrived at Bordeaux, where I then was, I'was astonished
8 at Achilles’ healthy appearance. On his returning to Lahore
9 a few years afterwards, in company with Benjamin Allard,
10 who w ent to take possession of the estates of his deceased brother,
11 and to w hom he officiated as interpreter in the Indian language,
12 he fell sick, and died under the treatment of the native physicians,
13 1 was much grieved at the unexpected intelligence of his death,
14 and paid him the last honours, by attending ins remains to the.
15 grave. To encourage the suppuration of the opened fistula, l
16 employed a mild, stimulating remedy, namely, cantharides in¬
17 fused in honey, on lint, twice a day, applied to the wound,
18 by which it was soon cured. At the recommendation of
19 General Allard, shortly afterwards. Rajah Suchet Sing, the
20 younger brother of the minister, requested me to accompany him
21 into the mountains, to attend him there professionally, to which
22 I readily agreed, ns, in consequence of my recent illness, I was
23 very weak, and the summer heat, of Lahore was intolerable.
24 Besides that, my friend*, the generals, advised me to accept the
25 offer on account of the great influence the young Rajah Sahel)
26 possessed ns one of the first personages at the court, and as
27 by curing him I should establish my reputation.
28 Although niy post w«« at that time not lixed, and conse¬
29 quently I did not depend on, nor was I subject to any one,
30 I nevertheless imagined that my departure for the mountains
31 had met with the consent of Iturijeet Sing. But it was not ■<>.
32 The young Rajah, who had a secret disease, had induced mo
33 privately to accompany him, whilst Uiinject Sing, in ni\ four
34 months* absence, inquired after me several times of General
35 Avitabile, who had first introduced me to him. It. was, probably,
36 for that reason that he detained me for nine months without giving
37 nn my dismissal, or ap| ointing me to any office. General Allard