Wood, John T.: Discoveries at Ephesus: including the site and remains of the Great Temple of Diana (London, 1877)

that I had been authorised to pay in advance, after
the manner of the country, the enormous rent of forty
Turkish pounds, for this little house of five rooms only.

It may here be mentioned that from the time I
injured my foot, and consented to the arrangement that
Mrs. Wood should accompany me to Ephesus, she
bestowed her care not only upon myself, but on all the
workmen also, doctoring- them with a success which was
quite marvellous. So renowned did she become in the
neighbourhood, partly perhaps because her services and
medicines were gratuitous, that people came from the
villages in great numbers, and- she has had sometimes
between sixty and seventy patients in the course of the
day. In doing this, she had to encounter much that was
loathsome ami disagreeable, but she had the satisfaction
of doing much to alleviate the sufferings of the poor
creatures by whom we were surrounded, and whose con-
dition was more or less at our mercy.
May 14.—We left for England.

Voluntary

services.

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