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