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Updated: May 9, 2025
"You are a Feldsher," I said, making use of the word which I had recently added to my vocabulary. "Exactly so, your Nobility!" These words, the ordinary form of affirmation used by soldiers to their officers, were pronounced in a loud, metallic, monotonous tone, as if the speaker had been an automaton conversing with a brother automaton at a distance of twenty yards.
Neither can I explain how they have come to know the peculiar properties of ergot of rye, which they frequently employ for illicit purposes familiar to all students of medical jurisprudence. The znakharka and the feldsher represent two very different periods in the history of medical science the magical and the scientific.
"It is the will of God, but I don't believe that he'll ever put his foot to the ground again. The Feldsher has been four times to see him, and the doctor himself came once, and said that he must be brought to the hospital." "And why has he not been taken there?" "How could he be taken? Who is to carry him? Do you think he's a baby? The hospital is forty versts off.
To my inquiries whether there was a doctor in the neighbourhood, the old servant replied, "There is not exactly a doctor, but there is a Feldsher in the village." "And what is a Feldsher?" "A Feldsher is . . . . is a Feldsher." "I am quite aware of that, but I would like to know what you mean by the word. What is this Feldsher?" "He's an old soldier who dresses wounds and gives physic."
The Jew was exhausted, hardly breathing, but that did not prevent the feldsher from cupping him twelve times. Apropos of the Jews. They enjoy universal respect, and according to the "president" they are not infrequently chosen as village elders. I saw a tall thin Jew who scowled with disgust and spat when the "president" told indecent stories: a chaste soul; his wife makes splendid fish-soup.
You see I am the only man for twenty-five villages, apart from a feldsher who calls me "your honour," does not venture to smoke in my presence, and cannot take a step without me. If there are isolated cases I shall be capital; but if there is an epidemic of only five cases a day, then I shall do nothing but be irritable and exhausted and feel myself guilty.
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