Sawt al-Mara — page 37

But the First World War fell upon them as it fell upon the country, and the Ottoman army occupied their building. When it left in 1918, it left behind demolished walls, having used the timbers for fuel.

How strong man is when he harnesses the powers of man in the service of humanity!! The people of Lebanon believed in the group's mission, and the charitable among them answered their appeal; quickly they brought timber and rebuilt upon the strong, firm rocks.

In 1923 the sanatorium admitted its first patient. Dr. Ni'ma took charge of the treatment there in 1927, receiving well-to-do patients along with the poor, and its buildings kept increasing until today it comprises fifteen buildings holding 200 patients, whose comfort is watched over by five physicians, three surgeons, 67 workers, and five nurses.

These long years have passed, and hundreds of the sick have seen in it a hope — seen in it a beautiful future after their

dreams had crumbled. They enter it as human wreckage, and go out from it into the world all vitality and energy, to take up their ordinary lives again!

The sanatorium lives on various resources. There are the fees paid by the wealthy among the patients, or by the governments of the Arab East for their patients! Nor do the charitable of the country forget the blessing of health, and they give what their souls prompt them to give, to help the deprived attain this precious health. And there are

And woman answered the call of humanity, presenting this room in the name of the champion of woman, Jirji Baz

the charity fêtes held by the committee that supervises its work, to gather funds and donations — at their head the benefactor Gabriel Trad, president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society and of the Dahr al-Bashiq sanatorium.

The Syrian Society for the Relief of the Consumptive, in Boston, provided the money needed to build a modern building containing two operating rooms fitted with the latest that the art of surgery has attained in instruments, organization, and skill! The sanatorium has an X-ray apparatus that is

the fourth of its kind in the world; the Lebanese Dr. Shaoul (of Deir al-Qamar), together with the German Dr. Grind, supervised the drawing of its design in the workshops of Germany.

The sanatorium contains the latest that science and medicine have achieved. The physicians in charge of treatment make two rounds daily to examine the patients, and every two weeks each patient stands before the X-ray machine for a thorough general examination. The doctors meet twice a week to review the examination of each patient, following the course of his illness from the day he entered the hospital. And the patients await this examination with hearts humbled in prayer! They will be healed, and will return to their families after the long parting!! The sanatorium's registers for 1952 show that only six patients died during

the year, while the disease was arrested