Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 212
KHILAFAT Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 212 his statement while he was seated in a chair. The substance of his statement was: "I identify the accused. He came to me for treatment more than six months ago. He was accompanied by another person. My diagnosis was that he suffered from mania, which is a form of insanity. Its symptoms are depression, reluctance to disclose true condition to physician, opaqueness of the whites of the eyes, shortness of temper. He stayed for a week or ten days, but his condition did not improve. I asked him to stay longer, but he did not. I examined him once a day. It took only a few minutes. I did not ask him to linger in my company. I am the first Successor of Hadrat Mirza Sahib as , and am the Leader of the Ahmadiyya community. I have practised medicine for about forty-five years. I was Chief Royal Physician in Kashmir. I stayed in the State for about fifteen years. I have not heard that the accused had assaulted any one. I remember I wrote a prescription for him. I keep no register of patients. I examine every patient carefully, never casually. " 92 The lawyers and the Court Inspector also behaved towards him with due courtesy. He had intended to leave Multan the same day but at the request of the gentry of the town agreed to stay on for another day during which he was kept busy examining patients, and in the evening delivered a public address in the hall of the Anjuman Isl a miah. He left for Lahore the same night and spent three days there. On Sunday morning July 31, he delivered a