1 1 had no alternative but to wait for another opportunity. To
2 do tins with mure comfort, 1 hired a small home on the shores of
3 the Bosphorus, in a village situated iu the most pleasant part of
4 that country, from which I enjoyed a beautiful prospect. On
5 the very evening of my taking possession of the cottage, I was
6 called to attend a Greek lady living in my neighbourhood, who
7 required my medical assistance. I was told that she had a fever,
8 f found her in bed, complaining of being uneasy and costive,
9 accompanied with a headache, so 1 ordered tier an emollient,
10 clyster, which I myself was obliged to administer, ns nobody
11 could undertake to do it. But, to my alarm, 1 was informed
12 on the following morning that she had died during the flight,
13 of the plague, her husband having preceded her but a few
14 days from the same complaint. The house of the deceased was
15 immediately shut up. At that time the quarantine establish-
16 ments at Constantinople were still in their original state of organ¬
17 isation, my small house therefore remained free, and luckily it
18 was not infected with the plague. The circumstance of my
19 not being myself affected by it—neither had 1 conveyed it io
20 my household—induced me to believe that 1 had not any disposi¬
21 tion to he attacked by that pestilential disease. I was also of
22 opinion that the plague was not contagious. In order to have
23 some experience iu this matter, 1 tendered mv services at once to
24 the plague-hospital at Pera, where the poor patients were left to
25 their fate, as no medical assistance or any other aid was to be
26 had. Without any authority or permission, l attended them at
27 my own expense. I proceeded, to die satisfaction of all the
28 attendants and patients, to treat the infected according to the
29 homoeopathic principle, and my endeavours were mostly crowned •
30 with success. All this, effected by the most simple treatment,
31 did not fail to procure me, in a very short time, a great repu¬
32 tation; so that, after the extinction of the plague, and the
33 abolition of all quarantine, I was in great, request among the
34 most respectable private families. But, before l proceed to prove
35 the efficacy of the minute doses of homoeopathic medicines, i
36 must first speak of a special remedy, which pros ed very efficacious,
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