We must let her sleep." Then she apportioned the beds among the ladies present, allotting two to each of them; and this done they all finished taking possession of the place, hastening up and down and backwards and forwards in order to ascertain where the offices, the linen-room, and the kitchens were situated.
"And the dispensary ?" then asked one of the ladies.
But there was no dispensary.

There was no medical staff even.

What would have been the use of any ?--since the patients were those whom science had given up, despairing creatures who had come to beg of God the cure which powerless men were unable to promise them.

Logically enough, all treatment was suspended during the pilgrimage.

If a patient seemed likely to die, extreme unction was administered.