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2 adjuncts, a confectioner’s shop than a repository of
3 drugs, was on one side of the building, and the other
4 side was occupied by the Hakim (Mahomedan doctor)
5 appointed by the Durbar to assist me, and who was at
6 liberty to treat patients according to his own system ;
7 so that applicants could employ native or European
8 remedies, as they felt disposed. But, what a difference !
9 what a wide gulf between the two methods ! On the
10 one hand, my hitherto unknown medium-system (which
11 then still slumbered like an embryo), the principles of
12 which I have already mentioned, and, on the other, the
13 obsolete Junanian (Grecian) or Arabic system, which,
14 with many of it& medicaments, has long been banished
15 European practice.
16 In this hospital, also, I was entrusted with the care
17 and treatment of lunatics j and* in the interior, sat three
18 Jerahs or native surgeons, also appointed by the Durbar,
19 who were occupied in the administration of ointment,
20 plasters, &c. for external healing ; so that, with those
21 patients who came to avail themselves of the services of
22 these Jerahs , those who came to consult with the Hakim,
23 and those who preferred my advice, the hospital was a
24 complete mil6 (fair) from morning till night.
25 It was with difficulty that I could satisfy the demands
26 of the multitudes who came from the neighbouring
27 towns and villages for medicines, notwithstanding I was
28 provided with several assistants besides those already
29 mentioned.
30 One day, a man, who, in passing, had heard that the
31 Dakter Saheb (Gentleman Doctor) distributed such
32 good medicines, in boxes, was desirous to obtain some
33 for himself and friends. A few months afterwards,
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