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seyerest winds by higher range Of
hills.
Besides this building there are several
out door wards which consist % tents
Where these tents ars used for sleeping
az night they have 10 be- protected from
wolves and hycnas by a strong wire net
ting One nurse q young English woman.
who helped me the second season, de-
scribed tho place a. looking like a EooloRi
cal garden when she tirs; caught sight Of IL
This wire netting II a perfect protection
against these beasts and all the windows
u the portable house. which ! am taking
hack with me from America. will h. pro-
tected by Il.
-Bssides this summer sanitarium on the
slope ~ Mount Lebanon. | have estab-
lished one for winter use on Junieh hay.
Aside from getting the funds for the build
ing and equipment 81 these sanitariums
there Is the even greater difficulty %
securing nurses and servants % help
IN the work ! am the house physician
but owing % the great dread and fear
among Q, o natives u tuberculosis AZ first
it was almost impossible % get any II
them 10 help me
Many parsons have expressed surprise
a. there being tuberculosis IN Syria,
where the climate u % mild and health
ful. The disease was introduced by the
French military police which we're sent TO
keep order In Palestine in iso0. after the
massacres Since then Il has been enor-
molIsly increased by the migrants re-
turning from America.
Though my sanitariums have been
open only a short time they are already
known throughout the empire. and We
are having applications for admission
from all parts Of Syria and Egypt AZ ye,
haven't room enough for a tenth Of the
durable cases that apply. We DO not take
incurables. not only because % lack Of
room bat because they have a had eject
on the durable patients
There is however a recently founded
refuge FOR these incurahles and in time
We hope 10 make it much larger thave
received a great deal II announcement
in the work from many Of the leading men
n the Ottoman Empire The native Free
Masons especially have showed their
appreciation and hslpfulneas and re-
Gently they have begun 10 organize 20
help me IN a war against the spread Of
tuberculosis
The first patents in the sanitarium
we're all men The reason for that was
thar We hadn't tho money 20 give free
treatment. and only the men had money
Now all hat IL changed and a. many
women come 20 me- a. men Last year We
hal fOriv-seven patients. II seems a
ridlculousiy small number when you
think u tho thousands suffering from the
white plague. hut IL IL fOrty-seven better
than the year before. when there was no
place where they could get intelligent
care
Though I count mvaelf an American
] was born IN Sidun. and am ~ familiar
with the irahio language and customs
~ though ! hadnt a drop 81 foreign
blood IN my veins. For a number ~
Years ! was the only woman physician IN
tho entire Ottoman Fmpirs and was
often called IN ~ perform delicate Onern-
ti0ns md ~ treat tho wives ard children
n plshas. military commanders and high
Government officials A. one time !
1!s0 .-7vr."d among the wandering
trib's ~ BodDvins n Arabia
! can s1fe'v saw that I treated thou
slnds ~ cas's and Performed hundreds
~ operations while With theae wandering
tribes. Itrlvollpd with large distansarv
tent In l03 established medical
niasionnrv station near the town Of
JuniDh. fifteen miles from Beirut
-Iunirh IL IN the Mediterranean At the
entrance n Kasr1wan. the stronghold OF
The Mnr0nit0F vino have n violent pre-
iudioe against foreigners and everything
PERTAINING n m innovation. No for
eigncrs excepting French monks and
nuns had ever heen permitted b remain
IN this region. and people told me ! war
attempting the impossible was the
unlY American woman In the province
Not 0nlv did ! establish tho madinal
station, but the people. many n them
important officials, hecame my Warmnat
trirnds and most JEALOUS supporters.
ii was after This succens that I started
p Work n found my summer aanitarium
for tuberculosis on Mount Lebanon. On
the rad 20 Damascus and Ten milqs nom
Beirut