150 Dr Boue on the Mode of Travelling' in Turkey. 



gerous maladies they only take the advice of women or quacks, 

 and too often die without any advice at all. Surgeons are still 

 rarely to be met with ; even in Servia there is a great want of 

 medical men, and the government have ordered many Tcreis 

 doctors (physicians for a district of country), and surgeons, but 

 the individuals are still awanting to fill these offices. In Tur- 

 key good physicians are only to be found in the chief cities, 

 Smyrna, Salonichi, Bucharest, Constantinople, Belgrade. A 

 medical school in Turkey, as well as in Servia, would be a most 

 useful institution. At present the army physicians in Turkey 

 are chiefly European gentlemen. Sending Turks or Servians 

 to European schools will never be of the same benefit as medi- 

 cal schools in those countries themselves. 



The European, on arriving in a town where European con- 

 suls are residing, should put himself under the protection of the 

 consul of his own nation ; so that, if he remains for some time, 

 he may be exempted from tribute. The post is still in a very 

 imperfect state throughout Turkey, and the Vienna post is the 

 only regular communication between Germany and Turkey, so 

 that the consuls' houses are the places where the traveller will 

 be likely to find news from home. 



Lastly, I may speak of the robbers who are said to infest 

 Turkey. I do not know how it was formerly, but now there 

 are almost none, or, where there are suspected to be any, sta- 

 tions of soldiers or gendarmes are placed, although these, per- 

 haps, should sometimes be stronger. The only parts where one 

 is likely to be robbed at present in Turkey, are, the north-west 

 part of Bosnia, where the new regulations of the Sultan, the 

 new military dress, &c. find many enemies ; also the limits of 

 Thessaly^and Greece, where Grecian robbers are said to infest 

 both sides. But even in these last countries, as in the Olympus, 

 it is possible to travel with a good escort, and the advice of well- 

 inclined pachas. In other parts of Turkey where I was told 

 there were robbers, as in Albania, I suspect they were only 

 men exasperated by bad treatment, and not able to get justice, 

 or governed contrary to their customs, who revenged them- 

 selves by killing the soldiers of the pacha, although they did 

 not, on that account, attack peaceable travellers. 



In some parts of Albania, where the pacha's officers said that 



