The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-07
Lady Doctor in Turkey.

a Lady Doctor in Turkey.
Whether women, who, in the language OF
one of her ardent but discriminating admir-,
ers, shares our sorrows, doubles our joys, ana
trcbles our expenses, may safely be entrusted
with the doctorial diploma, and left TO admin.
lister, at her sweet maiden will. The distilled
potcncies of the pharmacopGia, is ques,,
lion which still agitatcs medical societies and
ELECTS tcmpests OF shrill but inconclusive ic-
male argument In individual cases she has
decided the question attirmatively, and set
Iup a gig. No statistics attest the increased
mortality fthe district in which she minis
tiers; and, rs prescriptions are OF no sex, II
NAV be doubted whether the peoples and
mandragoras, the drOwSy Syrups ana warm
ing elxirs administered by woman, bereave
more families than the same compounds adj
ministered by man. AS iaynen, we WISH
to speak upon this subject win reserve, ana
we, of course, shall not cloud or confuse il by
expressing any opinions of our own. The
settlement of the dominion Of the pcstle rests
with those who WELD it, II the men, defend
inc themselves behind but;resses of precedent
and old usage, can maintain their hold upon
this sceptor of their authority, very well. II
the women can dislOdge them from their fast
ness and wrest il from them, or make good
their claim to a share of its possession, very
well also We will contemplate the strife
with calm interest, assured that the natura!
forces of population will restore even the
losses which united and combined onset OF
doctors, male and female, and of all schools,
would intict.
| Whatever the present state of the discus
sion among the nations of the West, in the
East the woman's assertion of her right TO
pinch pulses and Ordain drastics and demul-
cents has, in one ilustrious case at least, been
admitted. The Sultan has taken TO himself
a lady doctor, and she has hung up her bon
net in the seraglio Ii the appointed lady
| had been Miss JeX, of Glasgow, who, year
or two ago, ran on the embattled and diplo.
maed armies of the two universities in vim.
dication of her natural and revealed right to
attend autopsies we should not have been
greatly surprised. Her energy would carry
any coveted position, whether itwere contest
ed by Turk or Scotchman. But it was not
Miss JeX. 1t was a maiden of our own New
Hampshire. What schools certified her quail
ticatins we know not, but she has, in all like
lihood swung gracefully around the curricu-
lum of one OF them, and has gone forth to
modern and other conquest, armed with her
diploma. She can hardly carry into the East
less enlightened principles of the healing art
than have hitherto prevailed there. NOtwith-
standing the great Avicenna was an Eastern,
his bones still rest under the shadow of the
wasted gates Of Ecbatana, near TO the tomb
of the ever loved and remembered Esther
the region which his learning and his art
should have illumned still rests under the
shadow of baletul medical superstitions
Her doctors are wizards, and they heal with
spells They administer vicariousy. If al
bashaw has a bunion, they pour asses milk
upon his mothers head. The emetic is not
to the Arab or Turk who has
the collie, but to his next of kin. They put
faith in mystic puverizations and concoc-
tons, as Of dragons blood and powdered
tongues. Among them mum
merry is become merchandise. Mezraim
cures wounds, and Pharaoh favors balsams.
4 late Sultan, not of course Abdul Aziz, but
Abdul las was" is thought to have passed
% the bosom OF Mahomet in consequence of
a wizard pill, of unknown but obvious unset.
antific constituents. Mrs. Wadsworth, such
is her name and we write it with respect,
will correct all this, at least within the impe-
rial seraglIo where she ministers. II the
beauteous hours or rhumatic elderly sultanas
Of that sacred and sumptuous seclusion fall
i'll, as will sometimes befall even in the guard
ed courts and triply walled gardens of ORR
entail royalty, we feel quite sure that she will
in each case exhibit the orthodox remedies OF
our own pharmacopGias, and sample the
rruels and the arrow-roots which smooth the
path of her convalescepts with the wisdom
If Paracelsus or DR.. Parker.
Our kindest wishes 90 with her. The va
or and ingenuity she has shown in making
/ conquest of the Grand Turk attest that the
highest honors await her. 4 few more such
achievements on the part of the lady doctors,
md the question for their fitness for the heal
ne office will be settled. She may even re-
orm the practice of medicine in those far-oif
ands; and if so, Turks and Tartars, from
to the Hyrcanian deserts, shall
rise up with a yell and call her blessed.-N.
y Graphic,
The burning OF dead Prince in India is
rather expensive. 4 letter in the London
Times describes the combustion Of His High
ness, the Maharajah of Jondhpore The corpse
was dressed in royal robes of brocaded cloth,
and decked out with jewclry valued at So
700. In front OF the funeral procession walked
Two elephants laden with gold and silver
coins to the amount of 500 800, which were
scattered at every hundred PAGES among the
spectators, to be scrambled for. The corpse,
,hawls and iewclry were all thrown together ,
lpon the burning pile From the day on
which His IIighness died, 5000 Brahmins
cgularly received food and argess of a
upec at the palace gates. All the inhabit.
,nts, by way of expressing their grief, shaved
,ff their boards, moustaches, and the hair of
heir heads. The lamented Rajah left behind
iim neat assortment of wives and concu-
,lncs, who were, many of them, extremely
lesirous to be burned with their late lord (;
ome because they were really grieved at his
oss, and others because it was the fashion
bile thing to do. 1t was not permitted, how
yer, greatly to the disgust of the widows.
BOILED EGGs.--A story is told OF a negro
II Virginia whose master threatcnened TO give
i'm fiogging if he boiled his eggs hard
gain. Next day the eggs came to the table
till harder than before. You rascalr'
houted the cnraged planter, didn't ! tell
ou to cook these eggs soft?' Yes, massa,"
aid the frightened slave, IAN got lIp at > Il