13. Doctor Sharif

I became ill and Bajee Nasseem sent me to her homeopathic doctor, Brigadier Sharif. His son himself prepares the medicines that are prescribed in a room behind his father’s office.

The medicine is in small white packets, which contain a sugary powder. The first day I took the medicine I was already better, after a week in the mountains I went back to Doctor Sharif to thank him.

I asked him to take a picture of him to send to my daughters so that they may see the doctor who cured their father, and I showed the result to him on my digital camera.
“Your daughters will be afraid of this severe old gentleman” he said.
“No, I replied, because he wears the same hat as their father.”