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2 doses not only produce effects, but sometimes cause great and
3 beneficial excitement.
4 A sister of the young Shabert was troubled for many years
5 with a megrim. This evil was accompanied with a nervous pain
6 in the face, which made itself sensible at intervals of three or
7 four days, in the early part of the day, like a disguised fever.
8 In the moment of one of these paroxysms, I administered to her
9 a dose of pulsatilla ; but afterwards she became so much worse,
10 that her husband, Signor Salzani, came to me at ten o’clock at
11 night, in great alarm, to tell me that his wife had become almost
12 mad, and that they had to use great efforts to prevent her from
13 throwing herself out of the window. But this was her last
14 paroxysm, at least she had no more during my stay at Constanti-
15 nople. The dose of pulsatilla which I administered to her, was
16 one drop of the third dilution on a lump of sugar ; the tincture
17 I had brought with me from Vienna.
18 At that period, the Prince Abdool Mesjeet (now Sultan) fell
19 dangerously sick, and I was told that his royal father had dis-
20 missed all the physicians, English, French, Greek and Turk, on
21 account of their unsuccessful treatment, and that my reputation
22 and fortune would be established if I succeeded in curing him.
23 I replied that my rule was — 44 Noli accedere , nisi vocatus ,”
24 adding, that only on the request of the Sultan would I under-
25 take to attend the royal prince ; his majesty, however, was
26 fortunate enough to find a physician who performed the cure in
27 a few days. The Sultan ordered those doctors who had attended
28 his son formerly, to make their appearance again in the seraglio^
29 and presented him to them, asking whether they thought he was
30 perfectly recovered. They expressed their astonishment at this
31 unexpected and sudden recovery, and wished much to see that
32 miraculous doctor, who had performed such a cure, in so short a
33 time. The Sultan opened the door of a side room, out of which
34 there issued an Armenian lady, in Turkish costume, whom he
35 presented to them, smiling, as the miraculous doctor to whom
36 his son owed his recovery, to the shame of the assembled doctors.
37 To bestow on her greater honor, he ordered it to be publicly