ABSTRACT
The services of English physicians were also sought for, and appreciated. In 1636, when Jahanara, the second daughter of Sháh Jahán, was severely burned in the Dakhin, a messenger was dispatched to Surat, and Gabriel Boughton, surgeon of the Company’s ship ‘Hopewell’ was sent under whose skilful treatment the Princess was restored to health. In 1675 John Fryer attended the family of the Mughal general at Jeneah. The most important service, however, conferred by an English doctor, was when William Hamilton83 cured the Emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1715, of a carbuncle, and acquired for his counrty the settlement of Calcutta. In 1742 Mr. Forth, surgeon of the English factory, treated ‘Alí Vardi Khán in his last illness; and in 1763, when the English were massacred at Ráj-mahal, the only officer spared was Dr. Fullarton, who had been of great service to several Muhammadan chiefs.
