The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

I86 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. and of the municipal doctor, for she claimed all the cures and credited them with an appalling deathrate, and a ceaseless war raged between them. She had an infallible ointment for everything, especially cancer. We kept her out of the hospital, but she got at the out-patients and killed a case of typhoid by filling it with parboiled horse-beans. Women of this sort practise in most of the villages. They had ' first go ' at most of the wounds, which only came on to us when they were nice and septic, and we were then asked to pay the doctoress's bill, which was often heavy. The municipal doctor had a rusty set of instruments in a dirty case, a truly alarming sight, but I think they were more for show than use. His position was an unenviable one. He was supposed to receive ~T6 a month to attend the poor of the district, but he only got,T4, and that at irregular intervals, and after he had signed a receipt for ~T6. Turkish Government appointments are unsatisfactory things to hold, except for the pickings, and there are not many to be gathered by a medical man in a poor district. However, he did his best. When the English reported small-pox, and intimated it was a complaint that required fussing about, the Turkish officials, who had previously ignored it, announced suddenly that they were about to start small-pox hospitals. They collected a few cases and put them in a house in the town, but, of course, made no pretence at isolation or anything European of that sort. The poor 'muni

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 186
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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