CHAPTER I.

A House Divided Against Itself---In the Beginning There was Light but No Funds---The Age Limit for Women

CHAPTER II.

Medical Service on the Marne---All Souls' Day at Luzancy---A.W.H. Dentistry---A Grand Pandora Box of Surgical Diseases---Two Home Towns

CHAPTER III.

We Move to Blérancourt---Work with the Committee for Devastated France---The "Robustness" of our Chauffeuses---A Sky Pilot's Glove!---Coöperation with College Relief Units---La Résidence Sociale

CHAPTER IV.

A Pope with Appendicitis---A Circuit Riding Surgeon---Showers of Blessings Including Bedsteads---Booty Bandages---The Burning of the "Roye"

CHAPTER V.

Insect Life in the Valley of the Vardar---The Skoplje Beetle---An Influential Family---Supermen and Vermin---The Fateful Bite of a Louse

CHAPTER VI.

The Hernia Brotherhood---A Brigand Chief under an Æsthetic---Children First---Black Hair and White Eyes---Mustapha and the Minaret

CHAPTER VII.

Casualities on Market Day---Playful Katchaks---Hiding Behind a Skirt---The "Highduk" Kara George---Albanian Eagle Men---Blood Feuds---Pipes of Pan---Wild Boars

CHAPTER VIII.

Disease Among the Pure-Blooded---Pioneer Nursing in Albania---People, Sights and Thrills---The Home of a Lunatic---Travelling with the Mailman

CHAPTER IX.

The Day of Deliverance---Talk about Melting Pots---Shem, Ham, Japheth and the Folks from the Land of Nod---"A Flaming Sword Which Turned Every Way"---Pestilence in the Garden of Eden---Hoisting the Red Flag

CHAPTER X.

The Battle of Bardazag---An Expatriated American Battleship---The Latest Fall of Nicomedia---The Flight of our Native Nurses---A New Baby in the Midst---An Empty Victory---Gleaning Chetas---Our Turkish Watchman

CHAPTER XI.

The Mantle of Moscow---Under Two Flags: The American and Communist---"The Czar's Cigarette Case"---A Nationalized Casino

CHAPTER XII.

"Plain Tales from the Hills"---Bolshevik Strike---An Experiment in Communism---"Reds and Radishes"

CHAPTER XIII.

"The Medical Factory"---A Cattle Country---Big Demon Harnessed

CHAPTER XIV.

Spartans---Ararat and Hollywood---Ptomains of Fatigue---The Golden rule and the "Internationale"

CHAPTER XV.

Midas, Croesus and the Quest of the "Golden Fleece"---A Ship Without a Country---The Martyred City---A Sunday School Cruise---Polycarp and Chrysostom---How Firm a Foundation?

CHAPTER XVI.

The Smyrna Quay---English-Speaking Refugees with an American Accent---Neutrality---"Deportation to the Interior"---A Muddle of Nationality and Religion---The Strange Case of a Man with Two Passports, But Without a Country---Praying for Ships---The Golden Age of Greece

CHAPTER XVII.

American and British Sailors Help the Outcasts---Infernal Gates---Walking the Plank---Daylight Robbery---The Via Dolorosa---The Blood of the Rams---Birth and Death---Swimming in Dark Waters---The Strength of the Weak

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Gifts of Life---Finding Favor---My Share of the Smyrna Loot---The Boy I Shall Ask Saint Peter About

CHAPTER XIX.

Care of the Sick on the Islands of Homer and Sappho---Refugees from Rochester---A Poor Little Rich Boy---"Move On! Move On!"

CHAPTER XX.

"The Terrible Meek"---A Jocular Fate---The Turkish Family Tree---Genealogical Jungles---Busy Hangmen---Changing the History of the Turkish Race---Survival of the Cunning

CHAPTER XXI.

Beginning in Greece---Armenian Orphans---Floating Hells---A Call from the Sea

CHAPTER XXII.

Amazons Ancient and Modern---Poor Little Shili!---"Tears, Idle Tears"---Hatching Dodos--An Option of King Solomon's Mines

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Odyssey of an Oregonian---Home a Refugee---Treasure Islands---Dreadful Dreadnaughts---Caught in Chios---"The Balkan Bat"

CHAPTER XXIV.

Paul was Misinformed---Sir Arthur's Pick and Shovel---Crete and the Palace of King Minos---Armed with Phagocytes---The Dreaded Anopheles---A Miracle---God is Good

CHAPTER XXV.

The American Women's Hospitals' Quarantine Island---Pest-Ships from the Pontus---A Man of Sorrows---Our Outdoor Cafeteria---Eight Thousand Guests---"The Quality of Mercy"

CHAPTER XXVI.

An Angel from "God's Country"---Lost Grandmothers---Old Smallpox---The Turkish-Speaking "Greeks" and the Greek-Speaking "Turks"---Medical Science, Christianity and the Almighty Dollar---A Feast in the Palace of King Minos

CHAPTER XXVII.

"Her Majesty the Queen"---"Five Hundred Millionaires!"---My Far-Away Cousin

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The City of Two Continents---New Turks and Turkesses---Scutari Barracks in 1854 and in 1923---Lent and Ramadan--"Yes, We Have No Bananas!"

CHAPTER XXIX.

Ghosts of the Golden Horn---The Old Seraglio---Eunuchs Who Sit in the Sun---Life is Comic---A Fierce Image---Trotzky's Ironic Sanctuary

CHAPTER XXX.

The Christian Exodus---Dig in or Die---Survival of Quality---Women Builders---Poverty-Stricken Boom Towns---The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg---An American Deportee

CHAPTER XXXI.

Elysium for Diplomats---A Portentous Document---An Airplane with Heart Disease---The Advantages of Steerage Travel

CHAPTER XXXII.

East of the Volga---The Hunger Strike---Breaking the Tenth Commandment---Communism in a Railway Compartment---"Ivan the Terrible"---Feet by Jowl---A Wayfarer on the Borderland of Delirium Tremens

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Suckling Pigs of Siberia---A Storm over Canaan---Bubonic Fleas---A Lost Soul from Pittsburgh---Ghats of the Ganges---Women Doctors in the Far East

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Macedonia and Thrace---Moslem Exiles---Tobacco of Great Price---Starvation---Animals with Personality---Revolutions---Earthquakes and the Evil Eye

CHAPTER XXXV.

Practical Application of the Hippocratic Oath---Pioneer Nursing in Ancient Lands---Holy Men of Athos---Exclusion of Hens and Hen-Medics

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Saving Yedi Koule Hospital---A Prince out of Time---Armenian Dispersion---Confusion of Tongues---Refugee Nurses

CHAPTER XXXVII.

A New Social Deal---Quality at Low Cost---A Modern Agora---The Seat of Xerxes