Life and light for woman . d from that time untildarkness falls the people are free to come. One of the early morning sights-is to see groups of men and women sitting under the trees, or along the stonewall in some sunny corner, or in the stone porch before the main door,,waiting to pounce upon the doctor or upon the druggist. In the forenoon there are three centers of work, each one a little busiei*than the other two. One is the basement room, where the surgical assistantdresses the wounds of the out-patients. It is a sorrowful company that l8gg.\ AT THE HOSPITAL IN AINTAB. 395 gathers about
Life and light for woman . d from that time untildarkness falls the people are free to come. One of the early morning sights-is to see groups of men and women sitting under the trees, or along the stonewall in some sunny corner, or in the stone porch before the main door,,waiting to pounce upon the doctor or upon the druggist. In the forenoon there are three centers of work, each one a little busiei*than the other two. One is the basement room, where the surgical assistantdresses the wounds of the out-patients. It is a sorrowful company that l8gg.\ AT THE HOSPITAL IN AINTAB. 395 gathers about this door. Many are chronic cases, perhaps compelled tacome month after month, and even year after year,—comfortable under care,but unable to work, as their rags testify and their hungry eyes. And thereare always too many little children in this crowd—babies fearfully buined,,and others the victims of skin diseases. Upstairs the native physician iscaring for eye cases ; and when we remember the dust and dirt, the igno-. DR. CAROLINE F. HAMILTON. ranee and poverty of an Eastern city, we do not wonder that this secondcrowd is no smaller than the first. Meanwhile down at the house, in onecorner of the yard, the kuz hekine (literally interpreted, the unmarriedwoman doctor) is busy with the women. There are poor women clad inshort jacket and Turkish trousers, with a piece of cheap calico thrown overhead and shoulders, and there are rich women in silks and jewels,—Grego- S96 LIFE AND LIGHT. [^Sepiemdery riati Armenians and Protestant Armenians ; veiled women from the harems,with a whole i^etiniie of relatives and servants ; village Kurds, spinning evenas they talk to me, while m}^ eyes are busy studying the rainbow colors oftheir dress and the construction of their enormous head dresses ; youngArab brides with faces gayly tattooed ; Greeks and Jewesses; barbarian,Scythian, bond and free. I know of no better school for patience than amorning when fifty to sixty women are waiting
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