MOSCOW. 
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CHAR 
VI. 
State of 
Medicine. 
parties as a sort of bank-note, and no words 
were necessary in transacting the sale of it. 
Having mentioned the name of this respectable 
physician, it may be well to say something of 
the state of medicine in the country. Tire 
business of an accoucheur is always practised by 
women. The Emperor ordered all the mid- 
wives to undergo examination, before a board 
of physicians, a few days before we left Peters- 
burg. In the regulation concerning apothecaries, 
however well intended, the same wisdom was 
not shewn : it is a reproach to the country. 
If a stranger arrive, in immediate want of an 
emetic' or of any trifling drug, he cannot obtain 
it without the written order of some physician. 
If this take place in the night, he may die 
before the morning ; for the physician, although 
sent for, certainly would not attend. In Peters- 
burg, the fee of an eminent physician is twenty- 
five roubles ; in Moscow, only one or two. 
Persons calling themselves English physicians are 
found in almost every town upon the continent. 
Sometimes they have served in apothecaries' 
shops in London or in Edinburgh ; but generally 
(l) A remedy almost infallible against those dangerous fevers which 
are the consequence of passing over unwholesome marshes in hot 
countries, if taken within twenty-four hours. 
