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BAM LALL'S PROFESSIONAL CAREER. 158 You have in the first place introduced English medicines into families which never before touched even the dispensary water. This you have accomplished with no small labour by proving to their satisfaction the efficacy of the English treatment, which ere this was looked upon as far inferior to the treatment of oar Hakims . The care and attention yon have bestowed upon your patients (disregarding all personal gains) has convinced us that wonders may be accomplished by well-timed assiduity. The manner in which you have done the work of the dispensary must be regarded as exemplary, and the poor as well as rich have both been equally benefitted by you. Tour private character in receiving such of us as have had occasion to go to your residence has worked so strongly upon our feelings that we are unable to find sufficiently strong terms to express it. No suitable return for all these benefits has been made on our part, and we are donbly grieved to find that a man of your character (we mean both in public and private capacity) is leaving our city for another, but as we have no hands in the affairs of our Government

  • * * we must be content with giving you our best wishes

for prosperity in this, and proper reward in the world to come. In commemoration of your stay at this place we make a present of the following articles which we hope will be acceptable :— SUyer cap, gold ring, silver attardan. (Sd.) W. R. MURPHY, Onu dm Sorqwmt, Preeident of the Committee. RUTTCN CBUVD, B. A., Pleader. High Court, Secretary. - Antral 18th, 1877. During his stay at Moradabad he was also placed in charge of the Civil Medical duties of that station, in addition to his own, during the absence on de- putation of Surgeon Major J. H.. Loch, the Civil Surgeon. In August 1877 he was transferred from Mora- dabad to the Bhilapera dispensary at Benares in which 20