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Turkey's Need for Medical Science and Cleanliness

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 11, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 45.

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Turkey's Need for Medical Science and Cleanliness

THE Congregationalist suggests that the crying need of Turkey to-day is medical science and its advocates, who shall teach the people cleanliness. It is true that the unspeakable Turk bathes his hands and feet thrice daily, yet filth abounds, and the most loathsome diseases cause a wasteful loss of life. In hundreds of towns there are no physicians, and the Imperial University at Constantinople is the only public educational institution in that country having a medical department.