1 there 1 gave lessons in pharmacy and chynmtry to tin f'akir-i
2 Aziz-o > Deen and Noor-oo-Deen. The spirit produced front
3 Cahnl grapes, for the use of Runjee.t Sing, was distilled in that
4 place in my. presence, by his own people, because every tiling
5 eatable or drinkable, destined for the Sikhs and Hindoos, must
6 bo prepared with their own hands, no Christian oi Mussi lman
7 being permitted to touch it, lest they should pollute it.
8 There were also the royal magazines, utidei the care of \uor-oo~
9 Deen, where 1 prepared; different opiates, and many amusing
10 metallic oxyde* (kooshtegec), to please t!ie fakir and Runjeot
11 Sing, for which they held mo n high estimation. Among others,
12 1 prepared some morphine, with a large dose of which the Maha¬
13 rajah would surelv have killed a. famous opium-eater, if 1 hud
14 not been consulted in time, and administered to him some anti¬
15 dotes. 1 thought it strange that no one at Lahore was aware of
16 .he existence of coffee, and its usefulness Even the learned
17 fakirs, Aziz-oo-Deen mid Noor-oo-T)een (brothers), who were of
18 Arab descent:, knew coffee only from their hooks, under the de¬
19 nomination of him, and the sample which 1 showed them in 1882,
20 in the Durbar, was the first they had ever seen: but ivhou the
21 English arrived it became generally known. Neither find they
22 any notion of our eautlumdes ; for which they substitute mclur
23 Mini, a fly of greater efficacy* containing more ca.ithoriditie than
24 cantharides. They are seldom employed by the native physicians
25 for blistering, although they know the utility of them in cases of
26 hydrophobia.
27 Besides what hud been mentioned oil the "Ifects of blistering
28 in the description of my own disease, the following may likewise
29 serve as a proof how beneficial that process is when properly
30 employed, and it. may, in some cases, even save a patient’s
31 life.
32 General C -, lmd brought on a disease, by an external mis¬
33 application of mercury, while lie was with the court at Uinritsir.
34 It was ii. the warm season, and on the fourth day after tin appli¬
35 cation, lie became so indisposed that my services were called into