[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 41.2.2 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 41.2.2 Travels in India (Ball) 41.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [41.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2.2) On the 2d of October we had only 4 leagues to make to Golconda. We went to stop at the house of a young Dutch surgeon of the King, named Pitre de Lan, whom M. Cheteur, the Batavian Envoy, had left at Golconda — the King having asked for him from him very earnestly. This Prince always suffered from a pain in the head, and the physicians had ordered him to be bled under the tongue in four places; but he was unable to find any one willing to undertake it — for, regarding surgery, the people of the country understand nothing about it. Before De Lan entered the service of the King he was asked if he could bleed well, to which he replied that it was the least difficult part of surgery. It was with great reluctance that the Batavian Envoy consented to leave him. But he did not wish to disoblige the King, and De Lan received 800 pagodas as salary. Some days after the Envoy’s departure the King summoned this surgeon and told him that he wished him to bleed him on the following day in four places under the tongue, as his physicians had directed, but that he should take care not to draw more than eight ounces. De Lan returning to the Court on the following day, was conducted into a room by two or three eunuchs, and four old women came to conduct him to a bath where, having undressed and washed him well, especially his hands, they anointed him with drugs and aromatics ; - [Previous: 41.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2.1) - [Next: 41.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2.3) - [Up: 41.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.41.2.2) · Pramāṇa