Beyond the Pir Panjal; life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir . ed by plague. Modern civilization brings in its train many physical the least of these is the multiplication of diseases. Theabandonment of open-air life is followed by an enormousincrease in the amount of tuberculosis, with its innumerablemanifestations. As different trades and occupations are in-troduced, so the variety of disorders of the skin, the eye, thenervous and other systems becomes multiplied, until now inEurope the number of diseases is almost infinite. In theEast we have fewer diseases, but the numb
Beyond the Pir Panjal; life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir . ed by plague. Modern civilization brings in its train many physical the least of these is the multiplication of diseases. Theabandonment of open-air life is followed by an enormousincrease in the amount of tuberculosis, with its innumerablemanifestations. As different trades and occupations are in-troduced, so the variety of disorders of the skin, the eye, thenervous and other systems becomes multiplied, until now inEurope the number of diseases is almost infinite. In theEast we have fewer diseases, but the number of peopleaffected is relatively and actually greater. Infection fromwant of sanitary precautions plays a great part. Contagioa 276 BEYOND THE P1R PANJAL is responsible for many of the local diseases which are ram-pant—such as ophthalmia, scaldhead and the itch. Apeculiar form of malignant disease, called Kangri burncancer, is due to the universal use of portable braziers. In other respects the diseases of Kashmir are very muchthe same as those met with in CHAPTER XXITHE MISSION HOSPITAL New Buildings—A Beautiful Prospect—A Crowd of Sick People—Reclaimed—Items of Expenditure—A Provident System—A Walkround the Wards—Mohammedans and Hindus—Types of Patients—ALittle Sufferer—St Lukes Chapel—The Relief of Lepers. Many are the pains of life ; I need not stayTo count them ; there is no one but hath feltSome of them—though unequally they fall—But of all good gifts, ever hath been healthCounted the first, and the loss of it to beThe hardest thing to bear. . H. E. Hamilton King. The long western ridge of the Takht-i-Suleiman is prolonged into a picturesque grassy spur which used to be crowned by an old fort and is known as the Rustum Gaddi. On the south side of this are the high reddish-yellow cliffs of a stone quarry. On the north side, a hundred feet above the level of the valley, in a commanding position, is the Mission Hospital. This has been e
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