Storia do Mogor 140.6

140.6

I sent to have the door opened, when the old woman fell at my feet and gave me many blessings, telling me that the patient had already begun to mend, that she had had a large stool with great violence, voiding pellets as hard as camel-dung. Thus she urgently prayed me to visit the qazi's house to see the patient and continue the cure. Proud and elated by this news, I told her how necessary it was to confide in experienced physicians, that if I had not given her this medicament, composed of ingredients [136] known to me alone, the patient was bound to die. I went and found the patient had already begun to speak, and recognise everyone who was present. She was very different from what she had been for some days, for they told me that she knew no one and could not speak. I thought it advisable to discharge nature farther, so I gave her a light medicine, continuing it daily until the system was well cleansed. Then, with chicken-broth and bezoar stone, I began to strengthen the patient in such a way that in a few days she was restored to perfect health.