| Show MEDICAL PRACTICE IN an english weekly presents the following picture of ignorance and superstition in turkey it is not generally known that med medical I 1 cal science has made no progress whatever in turkey and that the poorer classes of that country have no skill at all in the treatment of disease the popular belief among these people is that disease is gods will and to attempt to cure disease would be to interfere with the divine judgment missionaries have frequently found peo p e ill from smallpox small pox entirely neglected in order that the divine davine will should have its own way the so called cures that are practised practiced show an equally unenlightened spirit when for example a baby is suffering from croup the following prescription prescript ibn is considered infallible A hens egg Is obtained and seven round holes are made in the shell the contents are poured into a bowl and the perforated shell is in dipped into some water and lifted quickly over the basin so that the water will stream into the basin this operation to is repeated thirty nine times the contents of the basin may be used for washing the little sufferer the few doctors who have administered to the natives have been received as if they were gods whenever travelers go into the int interior exior of turkey they are appealed to as an if ev every ery one of them were a doctor the average turk or armenian seems to believe that any man wearing a european hat is competent to treat all bodily ailments |
