Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — War Against Doctors In Spain. [ARTICLE]

War Against Doctors In Spain.

The Spaniards have a strange method of showing their gratitude to the medical men who ape risking their liyes in the present cholera crisis. In Valencia a physician has been killed by a stilletto stab in the hack. At Mogente another doctor had his head split in two by a hatchet wielded by a woman, while in another district near Lerdo a third was set upon and killed by an infuriated mob. No doctor can move about without a military escort, and even then ca*es of assault are of daily occurrence. The reason assigned is that the peasants are opposed to precautionary regulations. Strange people, the Spaniards!