1 pinion on this journey was ray brother, to whose daughter J had
2 stood godfather. His accompanying me was owing to ft strange
3 and unfortunate accident which had befallen him.
4 On the very dav on which I wrote to him lrom Orenburg,
5 announcing my approach towards home, lie had lost nearly ell
6 his fortune by a destructive tiro, through which lie was almost
7 reduced to despair. In order to restore him to his former activity,
8 I proposed that lie should accompany me on my tour through
9 Europe, which lie willingly did.
10 At Paris, my steps were first directed towards the domicile of
11 the father of Homoeopathy, the celebrated Doctor Hahnemann
12 In Russia, I had been already told of the prodigious effects of his
13 new healing system, and I earnestly desired to learn it at the source
14 itself. The magnanimous old man and his lovely young wife
15 received me in the most friendly manner, and T vviust not ornit, to
16 mention, that the open and good-natured Homceopathist unde
17 many interesting revelations to me respecting his new method of
18 curing. It wuh particularly important to me that Hahnemann
19 recommended to me his apothecary at Kothen, Doctor Lehmann.
20 The voyage from London to Hamburg, which I performed iu
21 a steamer, lasted a day longer than ordinary, and was one of the
22 most dreadful and annoying I have over experienced. We were
23 overtaken by a tempest, by which the vessel was tossed about in
24 such a manner that all the passengers suffered from sea-sickness.
25 If I say hat our feelings were those of « person whose bowels
26 are being cut through with sharp knives, the comparison
27 would remain far behind the real fact-. At Berlin, I met with an
28 old friend, Doctor Ehrcnbcrg, the naturalist, whom I accom¬
29 panied many years ago to the ruins of Bnlbeck ; he was in good
30 health, and we conversed about that journey ; but Doctor
31 Hempricli, his then travelling companion, had already left this
32 world. According to Hahnemann's advice, I introduced myself,
33 at Kothen, to Doctor Lehmann, from whom I bought a consi
34 derablo quantity of honucopathic medicines. From Kothen I
35 went to Leipsic, Dresden and Toplitz, at which place was that
36 celebrated congee-, of the Emperors of Austria and Russia, the
37 King of Prussia, and the most celebrated diplomatists, as also a