In the towns there are public hospitals, which generally are--or at least seem to an unprofessional eye--in a very satisfactory condition.

The resident doctors are daily besieged by a crowd of peasants, who come from far and near to ask advice and receive medicines.

Besides this, in some provinces feldshers are placed in the principal villages, and the doctor makes frequent tours of inspection.

The doctors are generally well-educated men, and do a large amount of work for a very small remuneration.
Of the lunatic asylums, which are generally attached to the larger hospitals, I cannot speak very favourably.

Some of the great central ones are all that could be desired, but others are badly constructed and fearfully overcrowded.