1 took her Mat modestly between the Sherishtedavs, or clerks, m;d
2 behaved with gnat decorum. The people looked fust at one
3 another, and then at the woman, as if, though conscious of her
4 identity, they could scarcely credit the evidence of their own
5 senses. E'en Major Mae Gregor was astonished, and asked uie
6 what I had 'done to make her behave so well ? My answer wn s,
7 «by cleanliness, some physic, douche-baths, decent dress, good
8 food, amusement'*, occupation, presents, promises, &c.., Stc.; all
9 this, 1 connected . with good treatment, scarcely ever tails to bring
10 hack such poor creatures to a state .of reason. 1 never heat
11 I hern, never ill-treat hem, but I prevent them from doing any
12 mischief to others or to themselves.” This reply highly pleased
13 the major. The woman in question was about, forty years of
14 age. and when site was committed to my care, she was so furious
15 that every one feared her. She wa jumping about, homing all
16 whom she met, and would have flung stones and other pro¬
17 jectiles at anv one new her, if she had not been prevented;
18 hut her fury soon subsided, she became as quiet as she had
19 formerly been boisterous, and was scarcely. able to walk. : On
20 an .examination, I found her suffering froth the syphilitic
21 disease. I asked her how long she had had that disorder; she
22 ansneml, a Jong time. Probably she had a luvs occulta, which
23 might have been the cause of her mental complaint, only whe n
24 flu; hie* broke out again she got rid of the disorder. I regret
25 having neglected, that opportunity of trying what effect syphi¬
26 litic inoculation . might have produced. This woman gave
27 me a curious relation of what had occurred to her, ancl which she
28 stated to have been the primitive cause of her madn >. She told
29 me that she had son; •time since spent all she was worth on the
30 occasion of the marriage of her only son, but no sootier had the
31 bride arrived than she discovered her to bean hermaphrodite,
32 ?lie. niacio her complaint to the kardar (magistrate) of the village
33 without obtaining any satisfaction, because the judge inclined to
34 that ride whcr<; the money was in greater abundance. This fa.a
35 induced her to go to Lahore and apply to the English for redress.
36 On this occasion she lost her reason. Nevertheless, she Mopped