Especially you, Artemy Philipp'itch! Without a doubt, this traveling official will wish, first of all, to inspect your institutions, and therefore, you must arrange things so that they will be decent.

The nightcaps should be clean, and the sick people should not look like blacksmiths, as they usually do in private.
CURATOR .-- Well, that is a mere trifle.

We can put clean nightcaps on them.
CHIEF .-- Moreover, you ought to have written up, over the head of each bed, in Latin or some other language--that's your affair--the name of each disease; when each patient was taken sick, the day and the hour.

It is not well that your sick people should smoke such strong tobacco that one has to sneeze every time he goes in there.

Yes, and it would be better if there were fewer of them; it will be set down at once to bad supervision, or to lack of skill on the doctor's part.
CURATOR .-- Oh, so far as the doctoring is concerned, Christian Ivan'itch and I have already taken measures; the nearer to nature, the better--we don't use any expensive medicines.