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Rh by homœopathic treatment. Allopathy had been tried for a long time, but without success. Vidyasagar thus grew more zealous to learn the new science perfectly. He knew that medical science could not be acquired thoroughly without a knowledge of Anatomy. He therefore purchased a set of human skeleton, which he subsequently presented to his friend, Raj Krishna's son. He procured many homœopathic, works, which are still to be found in his Library. Besides these, his Library contains a collection of a good many valuable books all beautifully bound and nicely arranged. He never allowed anybody to take away any book from his Library. Babu Nilambar Mukharji once asked him for some historical works to compile a history of India; Vidyasagar would not lend him the books from his Library. He purchased a new set and presented it to Nilambar Babu.

Some say that formerly the friends and acquaintances of Vidyasagar had free access to his Library, and they were at liberty to take away books to their homes occasionally. But subsequently, his mistrust arose from the conduct of one of his so-called friends, which compelled him to withdraw his permission to remove books from his Library. The so-called friend, alluded to above, once borrowed a valuable Sanskrit work from Vidyasagar and took it to his own home. After a time, when Vidyasagar asked him to return the book, the unscrupulous fellow at once replied, that