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Another girl is presented to the doctor with the "favus" ulcers of her
head covered by a dark and dirty substance which inquiry reveals to be
coffee grounds. She is told to report daily to the clinic tor ointment treat­
ments, and promised that, if she is faithful, she will be cured.
Trachoma, the eye disease of the East, is claiming its toll from many
• if these women, who do not or cannot present themselves early enough
in the disease, and as a result suffer from eye ulcers, iritis, eye hair, and
other complications, leading to partial if not complete blindness.

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ARAM AN WOMEN WAITING AT HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT
"The only thing that will relieve your suffering,” says the doctor to a
pour, suffering woman, the mother of several children, and the fourth wife
of an unprincipled Moslem husband, "is an operation."
"All right, 1 will trust myself to you for an operation," is the answer.*
Sad is the heart of the American doctor when he is forced to tell her '
that he cannot relieve her suffering by operation, because he has no place
in his hospital for in-patients, the hospital being incomplete as yet for
lack of money to build a second story. It is with difficulty and sorrow '
that he tries to make her understand that she must present herself at an*
other hospital for the operation which alone can relieve and restore her.

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