and her relation to her husband.

While the seminary was founded by Fidelia Fisk it was developed largely
by Jenny Deane, who was superintendent of the institution for thirty
years. It was under her direction that the building was erected. Miss
Deane was a very wise lady, and has few, if any, superiors in America
in the management of an institution. As a retired missionary she now
resides in Detroit, Michigan. She will never be forgotten by the many
women in Persia whom she has so greatly helped. There are also four
other seminaries in Persia for ladies.

MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

The beauty and blessing of medical mission work will be better
understood if we contrast it with prevailing ideas about medicine.
Until about fifteen years ago there were no Persian doctors who had
become such from the study of books on medical science. There, were,
however, many quack doctors who had a system of superstition which had
been taught them orally by older men. Blades of some kinds of grasses
which are known to medical science as having no medicinal properties
were the chief remedies prescribed for disease. Internal diseases were
called supernatural, and it was believed they were inflicted by evil
spirits. None of the doctors could do anything for this form of
disease, as they considered it out of their realm. A patient with an
internal disease was sent to the priest who would diagnose the case by
looking into the Koran or some other book in which he locates the
particular demon that is afflicting the patient. Writing something
mystical on two slips of paper, the priest gives direction for their
use: "This one soak in a cup of water and have the patient drink the
water. The other, bind on the patient's arm. I find that it is demon so
and so afflicting the sick man, and I have bound the mouth of that evil
spirit so that he cannot do further harm."

There are several remedies for fever. One is to tie seven knots in a
white thread and fasten it around the wrist. Wearing this fifteen or
twenty days cures the fever, they say. Another remedy is to remove the
clothing and jump into cold water before breakfast. If a man has a
severe attack of colic and cries, "I die, I die," his friends run for
the nearest baldheaded man, as he is known to have power to remove the
pains by firmly pressing the smooth surface of his cranium against the
surface of the patient's body nearest the seat of pain. Many baldheaded
men in other countries laugh at this