Women Physicians in Zanzibar
Tub Princess of Oman and Zanzibar writes, begging women doctors to come out to her country, aa no mate physician can bo admitted to Arab houses, though haphazard prescriptions are sent in In moderate sickness, ehe Bays, decoctions of herbs are much used, but when a patient's case is serious the believing Moslem prefers to resort to *' swallowing exts frojn the Koran." A person noted for piety is called to indite the text; with a solution of saifion on a white plate: the writing ia then covered with rose water and given to the invalid to drink. This medicine must be swallowed thrice a day, and care has to be taken that not a single drop of the sacred Huid is spilt upon tho ground." The Princess engaged herself to instruct European and American women in sufficient oi the Arabic tongue to make them understood by their patients.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 184, 25 December 1886, Page 8
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152Women Physicians in Zanzibar Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 184, 25 December 1886, Page 8
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