The first place we are going to investigate is India’s medical field. In order to do this, one must look back about 160 years or so. There were no hospitals to go to back then. If you were sick a friendly neighbor would have been your only means of assistance. A lady living back then may not have even had that much support. It would have depended whether or not her caste was acceptable to society as to whether or not she would have gotten help.
I have read of a lady named Mimosa who became ill while her husband was away. She was a Christian and didn’t get many visitors. Consequently, it was three days before anyone found her. In Amy Carmichael’s book “Let the Little Children Come”, it was said that there was a servant in the lower castes that had a bone lodged in his …show more content…
Even the staunchest are often unable to bear the sight and turn away. But the hundreds of villagers of Deorala village in Rajasthan's Sikar district, barely three hours away from the state capital, who watched the sati - the burning of a live 18-year-old Roop Kanwar along with her husband's corpse - saw nothing horrific. They saw only - and will repeat this under the severest of oaths - a calm and smiling Roop Kanwar, sitting with her husband's head cradled in her lap, showering blessings and benedictions on the crowds while chanting the Gayatri mantra. And she did not lose this serenity even when the fire consumed her torso and flames enveloped her neck. Then she fell forward. The eyewitnesses, so far, produce no other