1 milieu does not enjoy a great degree of credit, especially since
2 Louis Philyppe has lost by it the throne of France; but that
3 which is incongruous and inconsistent in politics, may be other¬
4 wise in the empire of science; and tlie numerous successful
5 results which I have found this medium system to have < fleeted,
6 have tended most strongly to confirm that opinion. To support
7 my assertion, I may cite the two well-known words oi the
8 Greek—M,j&v ilyuv — Nt> quid minis — M Too much is as bud
9 as too little,” as they say in .England.
10 Soon after the death of Runjeet Sing, in the year 1840, I
11 began to experiment upon this new principle; and five years
12 afterwards, the epidemic cholera raged at Lahore. It proceeded
13 slowly from middle Asia, or Turkistari, through Cabul and
14 Peshavtir, us wo learned from the Delhi Gazette, in which it
15 was stated that the epidemic was taking a direction towards the
16 East Indies. I thus had sufficient warning, previously to its
17 arrival at Lahore, to prepare myself for its reception. It was
18 a dreadful spectacle, to witness the fury with which it swept
19 away its victims. At its first appearance, the Hindoos end Sikhs
20 conveyed tin; bodies of the deceased through the gave called
21 Tnnksidlee-Dcrwazeh, because of its being near to the river Uavee,
22 on the hanks of which they were accustomed either to hum the
23 corpses nr throw them into the river; but owing to the progress
24 of the cholera, the num’ter of funerals became so great that rhe
25 passages of the bazaars were interrupted, and the government
26 was obliged to issue an order that the doud should be carried
27 through other gates also; and thus the Sikhs and Hindoos were,
28 like the JVJ usselmen, carried through the respective twelve gates of
29 the city. When the epidemic had reached its height, there were
30 upwards of eight hundred deaths daily, out of a population of
31 about 70,000. During that fatal period I had the opportunity
32 of making a large number of experiments; but the six weeks
33 during which the disease raged passed rapidly away; and, hut.
34 for the horrible suffering which its longer duration would have
35 entailed upon its victims, I could almost have w ished, for the
36 interest of mankind, that my opportunities of observation hail