Page:Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work.djvu/548

Rh About this time Vidyasagar was favourably disposed to Homœopathic mode of treatment. He had had a great aversion for it before. In 1866, the illustrious homos opathist, Dr. Berigni, had arrived at Calcutta. Doctor Rajendra Nath Datta of Bowbazar had already begun to learn the principles of Homœopathy. The two medical men, one a European and the other a native, being of the same turn of mind, formed an intimate friendship. The latter obtained great help from the former in the acquisition of his knowledge in the new mode of curing diseases, and soon rose to eminence. By this new method of treatment, doctor Rajendra Nath relieved Vidyasagar of his painful head-disease. The latter saw the wonderful curative properties of the homoeopathic drugs in the case of his friend, Raj Krishna, who had had a great costiveness of the bowels. Enema had had to be injected at short intervals, and even then the bowels would move very slowly, and eject bolus-formed stony discharges; the rectum bled profusely. Allopathic and other modes of treatment had been tried for a long time, but without any effect. Such a painful, incurable disease doctor Rajendra Nath cured marvellously by his new method. These two reliefs convinced Vidyasagar of the superiority of the efficacy of Homœopathy over that of Allopathy. Besides, he saw that Homœopathic medicines were cheaper, and their application far easier. He therefore devoted him-