1 48
2 This was my treatment twenty years ago, when I practised
3 Alloeopathy ; but, since that period, I have made many interesting
4 trials and experiments.
5 A short time after the publication of the above-mentioned
6 method, I had a case where I tried, as a preventive, the ender-
7 mic application, i.e I applied on the somewhat enlarged bitten
8 part some extract of nux vomica, upon which the patient passed
9 an unquiet night, dreaming of dogs running after him. I thought
10 it a bad omen, and regarded it as a symptom of the approach of
11 hydrophobia; and I did not rely on the local application only,
12 but gave him also, internally, a pill of the same remedy (eoc-
13 tractum nuc. vomic.) one grain, mixed with three grains of car-
14 bonate of soda ; to which he considered he owed his recovery, as
15 it caused an evacuation.
16 I introduced to our distinguished guests, Col. Wade and Dr.
17 Murray, an Akalee or Nahung, whose nose, ears and hands had
18 been cut off by order of Runjeet Sing (he had even deserved the
19 gallows), and whose nose had been so well restored in the
20 mountains that we were all surprised, and confessed it could not
21 have been better done in Europe. As we know, from history,
22 this operation was even in the remotest antiquity, practised by
23 the Hindoos ; and they formed the nose out of the cuticle of the
24 forehead, which proceeding is now, and always will be the same.
25 In Europe, where cutting off of noses is only in use, in ex-
26 ceptional cases — as when ulceration or other circumstances make
27 it requisite — this operation is usually performed with the cuticle of
28 the arm, and judiciously too, as, according to our custom, the
29 head mostly is uncovered, and a scar on one's forehead, with a
30 new nose on the face, makes rather an ugly appearance ; whilst,
31 in the East, the scar remains hidden beneath the turban.
32 In time of peace, the Nahungs gave a great deal of trouble
33 to Runjeet Sing. On one occasion, he was even forced to
34 place two pieces of cannon outside the Delhi Gate of Lahore, in
35 the vicinity of Seidgenj, where the robbers congregate, because
36 this band dared to intercept the communication of that city.
37 They shut themselves up in Meea-Meer, five miles distant
38 from Lahore, thence they made their appearance as rebels, but