The times., 1899-10-08

hammedan quarter and / have been asso-
ciated with DIR. and Mrs. Holmes. We are
kept very busy and we have not time to
get homesick, except in the evenings when
we are compelled to remain indoors. There
are gates TO all the principal streets and
these gates are locked about two hours
after sunset, and everyone remains indoors
until the gates are unlocked the following
day
In my work ] have always demanded the
right to teach Christianity to those who
received the benests OF my knowledge OF
medicine and my demands have always
been recognized by the government. for
the physicians who have gone into Persia
from enlightened countries are so far
ahead of the native doctors that the gov
ernmet has found that the people are
greatly beenfited. Every day we have
morning prayers with our native servants,
then our dispensary work begins which
lasts until noon and we have treated as
many as eighty patients a day.
We always charge a small fee. so the
dispensary is nearly self-supporting. In the
afternoon for two hours We have a medi-
cal school ana now have seven natives who
are sufficiently yersed in medicine to
treat many cases and relieve much dis
a C1o-- ne AtSt vi ALt dllcIuOOu We WISH
patients at their homes, and while admin
istering TO the sick we also teach Christi
anity 10 the family. There are hundreds
of Mohammedans who have adopted the
Christian religion but cannot practice it in
public for fear OF being punished.
Sought by the Natives.
''Our services are greatly sought after
by the natives, who fear their own physi-
clans because they not only do not know
how to treat them but extort large fees for
any service rendered, no matter how tri-
vial il may be. The native physicians are
ignorant of the laws of medicine and the
mortality of Hawaiian. is very large, espe-
cially among the children.
The native physician has his medicine
divided into warm and cold doses and il
the patient has fever, he gets cold medi-
cine, generally food of some kind to cool
him off. If he mas chills he is given warm
food 20 produce heat and the result is that
in large majority of the cases the pa
tient gets exactly what he ought not to
have and death is the result When the
native physicians cannot diagnose the pa
tients' ailment, he is more likely to order
the bastinado than anything else. For
instance, short time before / started fol
this country a native, living near our resi-
dence, had a stroke OF apoplexy. A ply
sician was called. He did not know what
was the matter with the patient, but to
cover his ignorance he said he was af-
flicted with an evil spirit which must BIZ
driven out.
He therefore ordered the bastinado TO be
applied to the patient and by the time the
patients feet had been beaten almost tc
pulp the unfortunate was dead. / wa!
called in later but of course could dc
nothing. Taken in time. the patients life
might have been saved.
THE present Shah of Persia Muzzefer-
ed-din, is no; ill-disposed against the
Christians, but he is influenced b. the Mo-
hanmedan priests, who hate the mission
aries, and we do not make as much prog
ress as we would like. II there was only
religious liberty among the people, Chris
tianity would grow and flourish. The old
school missionaries who lived among the
natives of heather countries and taught
them Christianity deserve no end Of praise
for their work. but the missionary -physi-
clan OF today certainly has greater oppor-
tunities for reaching the natives by en-
tering their homes 10 care for the sick
Many converts are made through the graft
tude of the natives who have been cured
by the new school missionary"