Life of Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar / by Sarat Chandra Ghose.

  • Ghose, Sarat Chandra.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Life of Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar / by Sarat Chandra Ghose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the utmost of my power what I believed to be the truth. I was sustained b}' my faith in the ultimate triumph of truth, but that triumph, I was also sure, could only be brought about by persistent presentation and advocacy of the truth. And I felt that that presentation and that advocacy should come from one who had a regular training in the medical sciences, and therefore could speak with authority, and who would not be suspected of mistaking a mild for a grave disease. Babu Rajinder had succeeded in making converts of a few highly intelligent laymen, and he had succeeded in converting at least one professional man, and that conversion was due tcv observing actual success of homeopathic treatment. Rabu Rajinder was a layman and therefore notwithstanding the marvelousness of some of his cures he could not command that confidence from the community which he could if he had been a regular professional. He could only be sent for in extreme cases given up by the doctors, and it is not every extreme case that could be brought hack to life from the jaws of death. Failures must necessarily arise, and failures in his hands were bound to be fatal to the advancement of the cause for which he was labouring with such earnestness and zeal. He was at first associated with one who, though he called himself an M.D., was in reality a layman who had necessari- ly no proper acquaintance with the medical sciences : and bitterly he was associated with a professional who was more a religious enthusiast than a zealous physician. He more often ])ractised hydropathy than homeopathy, and thus courted failure in many an instance. One of his unlucky failures was related with dramatic eflfect at the meeting. The asso- ciation of such a practitioner with Babu Rajinder, far from bringing credit, brought in many cases serious discredit upon