Magazine "Medicine for the Workers" №6

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**Magazine "Medicine for the Workers" №6** (Russian: *Журнал «Медицина - трудящимся» №6*) is a document in *ATOM RPG*.

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"Medicine for the Workers"

19.06.1983

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"The Green clinic of comrade Demyanov"

It's not a secret – Soviet medicine made a long, tedious journey to perfection. From Pavlov to Fyodorov, from Bekhterev to Bokarius. Through all of our history, scientists of our great Motherland perfected the ancient teachings of Hippocrates, making them available to every worker.

Now, in the golden 80's, like mushrooms after rain, hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation establishments grew all over our beloved land. Still, there are those among us, who neglect the modern medicine, and instead choose to visit herbalists, witchdoctors and all manner of so-called healers.

Some believe this to be rooted in superstitions, that survived from the times when medical aid was still unprofessional and unsanitary. So much so, that mentally ill witchdoctors seemed like a good alternative. This theory is probably true. However, there is another reason – some herbal remedies still work amazingly well, and can even compete with modern Soviet medicine!

To talk about such ideas, we met up with Alexey Demyanov, a herbalist by trade, who spreads his herbal remedies around town – not inside pills and syringes, but wrapped with barley leaves or fresh wild cabbage.

- "Never did I have any conflict with proper doctors! They do good for the people… It's just that my ways are different. Where they'd use a band-aid, I'd use some fresh leaves, or moss if it bleeds too much. See? I have a whole bunch of it! Moss sure hates open sunlight. That's why it's in the corner over yonder." – Explains Alexey, showing us a wide trough filled with emerald-green moss.

- "And if your insides start hurting, why, I'd give you some elk moss! See? The grey one! It's quite bitter, but if you have the coughs, or the butt sores, it's gonna fix you all up!" – We look at the ceiling and notice some grey moss, hanging down to dry.

- "There's also catnip. People can't get enough of it! It's a kind of peppermint, you know. Cats love it. And you can't fool a cat, so it really must be good for you. We usually make it a tea and drink it up." – Alexey shows us some plants with leaves covered in tiny white threads. They smell like winter air.

- "No! Don't go there! It's my personal plant! Not for your eyes!" – The old man stops us, as we try to film a hidden glass dome, under which some tall, strong smelling plants with segmented leaves grow. As we look at the strange herbs, Alexey starts looking worried, but then calms down, and quickly leads us away, to show his berry deposits.

As our interesting tour ends, all of us keep to our old ways. The chief medical specialist of our magazine still thinks Soviet medicine has no rivals in nature. Old man Alexey still believes herbs can be the healing of the nation. The rest of us continue to believe that every remedy – medical or herbal – has it's benefits and it's time to shine.