1 great number of the Hite of five nubility. It .nay easily be
2 imagined, that on such an occasion there ms no lack of festivals
3 a pd amusements, in which I took some share, as I met with a very
4 kind reception owing, perhaps, to my oriental costume.
5 From Tbplit.'/ 1 returned to Kronstadt, my native country,
6 in order to pass the carnival there among my relations. In the
7 spring of the year 183(5, 1 went to Vienna, on particular business,
8 and I stayed there till the autumn. In the summer of the same
9 year, the long-dreaded guest, ChoLra, was raging in that
10 capital I myself felt the first symptoms of that dreadful and
11 destroying epidemic, I had spasms and a diarrhoea; I there fore
12 lost, no lime in applying irty remedies, taking, every half-hour, a
13 homoeopathic dose of ipecacuanha, l itis remedy proved quite
14 e fficacious, and I was fortunate enough to be entirely recovered
15 in the space of six hours.
16 As there are many substitutes for ipecacuanha, I think it not
17 supei fiuous to mention on this occasion, that it is only the genuine
18 drug that can produce the desired effect. 1 hat by which
19 I was restored, was from Doctor Lehmann. The go.nl result
20 which I experienced in myself and others, from adopting the
21 homa'opathic system, induced me to extend the practice to a
22 larger circle of patients. For that purpose 1 chose the capital
23 of the Ottoman empire, which 1 thought particularly suitable,
24 as it "as at no great distance from my native country, and
25 because I was acquainted with the oriental languages, habits
26 and manners, besides that, my pecuniary circumstances were
27 rather embarrassed, as the*vender may be aware, owing to the
28 losses I had sustained in different countries, particularly in
29 Bokhara (by the Armenians) and in Russia (by my sable transac¬
30 tions). To carry out my plan, I petitioned for a passport to
31 Constantinople, which I obtained, without any difficulty.
32 I departed from Vienna, passed through Kronstadt and Buka-
33 rest for Gallaz, where I embarked, not as previously at Varna
34 in an open vess 1, but in a steamer bound to Constantinople.
35 Contrary to my expectation, the plague was raging there at that
36 time, and the Europeans kept themselves shut up in their houses,
37 far from any contact with the world. Under such circumstances.