1 hope of meeting with a good opportunity of rendering Iionta'-
2 opnthy ridiculous, and showing the public the inutility of that
3 system. Mrs. Shabert having finished, her husband requested
4 me to accompany him to the consulate, where his son was then
5 lying, in order that I might cure him. 1 found the youth very
6 much reduced, but tranquil in mind. His surgeon, a French¬
7 man, who was present, or rather was waiting tor me, told me he
8 had, by a repetition, stanched the blood with a red-hot iron and
9 other styptics* but that another bleeding was to he feared as
10 soon as the scab should come from the wound, arid us the parents
11 of the patient were anxious to try homo opathy, lie consented,
12 and I administered, in Ids presence, three lilliputian pills of
13 Atuftea diadem a (X?“°), and then took my leave. When 1
14 called on my patient in the morning, he told me that he had
15 passed a quiet night, that his former physician bad already been
16 there, and on hearing that no bleeding had taken place, iie had
17 prescribed for him some pills; but he again and again repeated,
18 that In felt no inclination to take them, as he preferred my medi¬
19 cine, which had proved so beneficial. Whilst 1 was‘preparing
20 the medicament, the doctor, who was an Italian, came in, and was
21 about to fasten a quarrel on me; but old M. Shabert took him
22 by the arm nod led him into another room, from which he dis¬
23 appeared, and I saw him no more. I repeater! the medicine for
24 eight days, at the end of which time he was completely recovered.
25 I must observe here, that the Aranea dituhma was prepared by
26 Doctor Lehmann, at Kbtlven, whose medicines, as I have ftl -early
27 mentioned, were recommended to me by Hahnemann.
28 What did the surgeon do in the meanwhile? To show that
29 the recovery of the young man was the effect of hit treatment,
30 he ordered a dog to be brought from the bazaar, and cut. through
31 its crural artery, and then applied his styptic (creosote)- hut
32 seeing that the wound did riot heal, lie allowed the dog to escape,
33 and a short time afterwards the animal was tbipid dead in the
34 street.
35 Another case occurred in the above-mentioned family, with a
36 female, which may serve as mi example lmw small homu-opatliie