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On a level with the feldsher and much preferred by the peasantry, stood the snakharka, a woman, half witch, half quack, who was regarded by the moujiks with the greatest veneration. By means of herbs and charms, she could accomplish any cure short of restoring life to a corpse.
"And must we sit helpless in the meantime?" sobbed Miriam, through her tears. The door opened and a woman living in the neighborhood entered to inquire after the patient. "See, Miriam," she said, "when I was feverish last year after my confinement, a snakharka gave me this bark with which to make a tea. I used a part of it and you remember how quickly I recovered. Here is all I have left.
"The snakharka and the feldsher represent two very different periods in the history of medical science the magical and the scientific. The Russian peasantry have still many conceptions which belong to the former.
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