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2 hope of meeting with a good opportunity of rendering homoe-
3 opathy ridiculous, and showing the public the inutility of that
4 system. Mrs. Shabert having finished, her husband requested
5 me to accompany him to the consulate, where his son was then
6 lying, in order that I might cure him. I found the youth very
7 much reduced, but tranquil in mind. His surgeon, a French-
8 man, who was present, or rather was waiting for me, told me he
9 had, by a repetition, stanched the blood with a red-hot iron and
10 other styptics, but that another bleeding was to be feared as
11 soon as the scab should come from the wound, and as the parents
12 of the patient were anxious to try homoeopathy, he consented,
13 and I administered, in his presence, three lilliputian pills of
14 Aranea diadema (X°00), and then took my leave. When I
15 called on my patient in the morning, he told me that he had
16 passed a quiet night, that his former physician had already been
17 there, and on hearing that no bleeding had taken place, he had
18 prescribed for him some pills ; but he again and again repeated,
19 that he felt no inclination to take them, as he preferred my medi-
20 cine, which had proved so beneficial. Whilst I was preparing
21 the medicament, the doctor, who was an Italian, came in, and was
22 about to fasten a quarrel on me ; but old M. Shabert took him
23 by the arm and led him into another room, from which he dis-
24 appeared, and I saw him no more. I repeated the medicine for
25 eight days, at the end of which time he was completely recovered.
26 I must observe here, that the Aranea diadema was prepared by
27 Doctor Lehmann, at Kdthen, whose medicines, as I have already
28 anentioned, were recommended to me by Hahnemann.
29 What did the surgeon do in the meanwhile ? To show that
30 the recovery of the young man was the effect of his treatment,
31 he ordered a dog to be brought from the bazaar, and cut through
32 its crural artery, and then applied his styptic (creosote) ; but
33 seeing that the wound did not heal, he allowed the dog to escape,
34 and a short time afterwards the animal was found dead in the
35 street.
36 Another case occurred in the above-mentioned family, witli a
37 female, which may serve as an example how small homoeopathic