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confidence is won and then her affection. If, by the blessing of C«oUt
she is healed, her gratitude knows no bounds, “Give me whatever
medicine you will,” she says. “liven if you should give me poison
I would drink it.” One woman, after a successful operation, exclaimed
“Whenever l turn over in the night and realize that my terrible agony
is gone, I offer up a petition that Allah may bless you.”
There are no newspapers in the Arab towns on the Persian Gulf,
but news spreads, nevertheless. After the first major operation per­
formed on an Arab woman in one city the following report was
heard. “What do you think? The doctor-lady cut a woman open, took
out her insides, carried them to the sea to wash them, and then put
them back again!”

THE WOMAN’S DISPENSARY, KUWEIT

Unpaid reporters have as great a propensity for misrepresenting
things as do the proverbial newspapers of our own country. Some
even tell most vicious lies about the physician uf the atrocities she
has committed and the patients she has killed.
The fatalism of the Moslem sometimes makes him lethargic. l|c
will wait a long time before resorting to any means of cure. Since he
believes his fate to be written on his forehead one cannot wonder that
he does not exert himself more strenuously in trying to inductive the
course of events, liut there is always the possibility that Allah may
have decreed that the patient be healed, and it may be His purpose
to use the Christian physician to attain this end. One often hear*
the statement “Allah heals, but he makes you the means.”