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 Next year Babu Hara Chandra Ghosh, a judge of the Small Causes Court, passed away. As he was one of the staunch supporters of female education, he was keenly missed.

About this time Vidyasagar induced his personal friend Dr. Mohendra Lal Sarkar to try the efficacy of homeopathic drugs. Dr. Berigny, the celebrated homeopathist, had arrived two years before and had Dr. Rajendra Nath Dutta, a pupil of Dr. Tonnerre, for his coadjutor. The two drove for some time a roaring practice. Dr. Dutta healed Vidyasagar of his painful brain disease. Raj Krishna Banerji was also successfully treated by him. These two cases in particular, which allopathy had pronounced incurable, convinced Vidyasagar of the superiority of the new science and he began to persuade Dr. Sarkar, who had a few years before openly denounced homeopathy as a system of quackery, to adopt this treatment. A few other cases cured by Rajendra Babu, as also a careful perusal of