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“We do not know where he is,” said Bosk. He looked at Iskander, of the Physicians. “If we should be able to seize he who is spoken of as Belisarius, do you think we could derive the cipher key from him?” 
“Perhaps,” said Iskander, “but I suspect that a spoken word, uttered by Belisarius himself, would, by suggestion, remove the cipher key from his mind.” 
“Could the enemy be so subtle?” asked Samos. 
Iskander, of the Physicians, pointed to me. “I think so,” said he. “You see what their power is in such matters.” 
I looked down. 
“Could we, by the use of drugs, obtain it?” asked Samos. 
“Perhaps,” said Iskander, “but presumably we would encounter numerous keys. Who knows?” 
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 386 

The fairs, too, however, have many other functions. For example, they serve as a scene of caste conventions, and as loci for the sharing of discoveries and research. It is here, for example, that physicians, and builders and artisans may meet and exchange ideas and techniques. 
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Page 44 

On a rounded wooden block a naked slave girl knelt, her wrists braceleted behind her. Her head was back. One of the physicians was cleaning her teeth. 
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Page 54 

“Call one of the physicians,” I heard. 
“One is coming,” I heard. 
These voices came from within the booth. 
I bent down and brushed aside the canvas, re-entering the booth. Two men with torches were now there, as well as several others. A man held the merchant in his arms. I pulled aside his robes. The wounds were grievous, but not mortal. 
. . . 
A physician entered the booth, with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. He began to attend to the merchant. 
. . . 
When the physician had finished the cleansing, chemical sterilization and dressing of the merchant’s wounds, he left. 
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Page 103 – 104 

A filling found in a tooth is usually a sign of an Earth girl. It is not an infallible sign, however, for not all Earth girls have fillings and some dental work is done upon occasion by the caste of physicians on Gorean girls. 
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Page 154 

Two men from the desk of the nearest wharf praetor, he handling wharves six through ten, a scribe and a physician, boarded the ship. The scribe carried a folder with him. He would check the papers of Ulafi, the registration of the ship, the arrangements for wharfage and the nature of the cargo. The physician would check the health of the crew and slaves. Plague, some years ago, had broken out in Bazi, to the north, which port had then been closed by the merchants for two years. In some eighteen months it had burned itself out, moving south and eastward. Bazi had not yet recovered from the economic blow. Schendi’s merchant council, I supposed, could not be blamed for wishing to exercise due caution that a similar calamity did not befall their own port. 
The scribe, with Ulafi, went about his business. I, with the crew members, submitted to the examination of the physician. He did little more than look into our eyes and examine our forearms. But our eyes were not yellowed nor was there sign of the broken pustules in our flesh. 
Explorers of Gor Book 13 Page 118 

“Bring in the slaves,” said the physician. 
One seaman held Sasi’s rope taut, above the deck ring. Another undid the bowline which fastened the rope to the ring. Shoka, with a hook on a pole, drew Sasi back to the rail. He put aside the pole, and, one hand about her waist, drew her to him, lifting her then over the rail. He placed her on her back on the deck, her ankles still bound, her wrists, still tied, back over her head. 
The physician bent to examine her. 
Shoka then retrieved the pole and extended it outward, to draw the blond-haired girl back to the rail. 
She was very beautiful. Her eyes, briefly, met mine as Shoka lifted her over the rail. He placed her on her back, beside Sasi, her wrists and ankles, like those of Sasi, still tied. Her arms, like Sasi’s, elbows bent, were back and over her head. 
Curious, the physician touched her again, She whimpered, squirming. “She’s a hot one,” said the physician. 
“Yes,” said Ulafi. 
The girl looked at the physician with horror, tears in her eyes. But he completed her examination, looking into her eyes, and examining the interior of her thighs, her belly, and the interior of her forearms, for marks. 
Then the physician stood up. “They are clear,” he said. “The ship is clear. All may disembark.” 
“Excellent,” said Ulafi. 
The scribe noted the physician’s report in his papers and the physician, with a marking stick, initialed the entry. 
Explorers of Gor Book 13 Page 119 - 120 

I could smell perfumes and their mixings in the long shop behind the counter. There, at various benches, attending to their work, measuring and stirring, were apprentice perfumers. Though one is commonly born into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served. This guarantees the quality of the caste product. It is possible, though it is seldom the case, that members of a caste are not permitted to practice specific caste skills, though they may be permitted to practice subsidiary skills. For example, one who is of the Metalworkers might not be permitted to work iron, but might be permitted to do such things as paint iron, and transport and market it. Caste rights, of course, such as the right to caste support in time of need and caste sanctuary, when in flight, which are theirs by birth, remain theirs. The women of a given caste, it should be noted, often do not engage in caste work. For example, a woman in the Metalworkers does not, commonly, work at the forge, nor is a woman of the Builders likely to be found supervising the construction of fortifications. Caste membership, for Goreans, is generally a simple matter of birth; it is not connected necessarily with the performance of certain skills, nor the attainment of a given level of proficiency in such skills. To be sure, certain skills tend to be associated traditionally with certain castes, a fact which is clearly indicated in caste titles, such as the Leatherworkers, the Metalworkers, the Singers, and the Peasants. A notable exception to the generalization that women of a given caste normally do not engage in caste work is the caste of Physicians, whose women are commonly trained, as are the boys, in the practice of medicine. Even the physicians, however, normally do not admit their women to full practice until they have borne two children. The purpose of this is to retain a high level of intelligence in the caste. Professional women, it is well understood, tend not to reproduce themselves, a situation which, over time, would be likely to produce a diminution in the quality of the caste. Concern for the future of the caste is thus evinced in this limitation by the physicians on the rights of their women to participate without delay in the caste craft. The welfare of the caste, typically, takes priority in the Gorean mind over the ambitions of specific individuals. The welfare of a larger number of individuals, as the Goreans reason, correctly or incorrectly, is more important than the welfare of a smaller number of individuals. I do not argue this. I only report it. 
“My thanks, Lady Teela,” said Turbus Veminius, proprietor of the shop, accepting coins and handing to a robed woman a tiny vial of perfume. She then left. 
The woman of the Physicians, at the age of fifteen, in many cities, wears two bracelets on her left wrist. When she has one child one bracelet is removed; when she has a second child the second bracelet is removed. She may then, if she desires, enter into the full practice of her craft. Turbus Veminius then turned his attention to another customer. 
Caste is important to the Gorean in ways that are difficult to make clear to one whose social structures do not include the relationships of caste. In almost every city, for example, one knows that there will be caste brothers on whom one may depend. Charity, too, for example, is almost always associated with caste rights on Gor. One of the reasons there are so few outlaws on Gor is doubtless that the outlaw, in adopting his way of life, surrenders caste rights. The slave, too, of course, has no caste rights. He stands outside the structure of society. He is an animal. It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste. This saying, however, it might be pointed out, as Goreans recognize, is not strictly true. For example, some individuals have lost caste, or been deprived of caste; some individuals have been born outside of caste; certain occupations are not traditionally associated with caste, such as gardening, domestic service and herding; and, indeed, there are entire cultures and peoples on Gor to whom caste is unknown. Similarly, caste lines tend sometimes to be vague, and the relation between castes and subcastes. Slavers, for example, sometimes think of themselves as being of the Merchants, and sometimes as being a separate caste. They do have their own colors, blue and yellow, those of the Merchants being white and gold. Too, are the bargemen of the Southern Cartius a caste or not? They think of themselves as such, but many do not see the matter in the same light. There are, on Gor, it might be mentioned, ways of raising and altering caste, but the Gorean seldom avails himself of these. To most Goreans it would be unthinkable to alter caste. He is generally too proud of his caste and it is too much a part of him for him to think in such terms. It is, too, recognized that all, or most, of the castes perform necessary, commendable or useful functions. The Leatherworker, accordingly, does not spend much time envying the Metalworker, or the Metalworker the Leatherworker, or either the Clothworker, and so on. All need sandals and wallets, and clothes, and metal tools. Each does, however, tend to think of his own caste as something special, and, somehow, I suspect, as being perhaps a little bit preferable to the others. Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride. I have little doubt but what the caste structure contributes considerably to the stability of Gorean society. Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations. If one may judge by the outcome of Kaissa tournaments, amateur tournaments as opposed to those in which members of the caste of Players participate, there are brilliant men in most castes. 
Fighting Slave of Gor Book 14 Page 209 - 211 

I yanked the fellow by the neck leash of twisted cloth to his feet. I thrust the silver tarsk into his mouth, so that he could not speak. “Seek a physician,” I told him. “Have your wrist attended to. It appears to be broken. Do not be in Victoria by morning.” I then turned him about and, hurrying him with a well-placed kick, sent him running, awkwardly, painfully, whimpering and stumbling, from the dock. 
Rouge of Gor Book 15 Page 156 

A familiar bit of advice given by bold Gorean physicians to free women who consult them about their frigidity is, to their scandal, “Learn slave dance.” Another bit of advice, usually given to a free woman being ushered out of his office by a physician impatient with her imaginary ailments is, “Become a slave.” Frigidity, of course, is not accepted in slaves. If nothing else, it will be beaten out of their beautiful hides by whips. 
Guardsman of Gor Book 16 Page 260 

In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the “second wine.” 
Blood Brothers of Gor Book 18 Page 319 

As a child I had had some fillings in the molar area, on lower left side. 
“They are common in barbarians,” said the first man. 
“Yes,” said Durbar. “But, those of the caste of physicians do such things. I have seen them in some Gorean girls.” 
Kajira of Gor Book 19 Page 258 

“I do not think so,” I said. “I do not want to be a man. I want to be a woman. My anger, my frustration, is motivated, I think, not by their manhood, and that I am not a man, as seems to be the case almost universally with the women you despise, if we can believe physicians in the matter, but rather by their lack of manhood, which denies me as well as them, which keeps me from being a full woman.” 
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 57 – 58 

“Let us have the attestation!” cried Mirus, forcing the two fellows apart. 
Tamirus approached me. He wore green robes. I did not know at that time but this indicated he was of the caste of physicians. That is a high caste. If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was. Most Goreans take caste very seriously. It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor. It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions. The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization. Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized. Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them. Such skills, too, tend to be appreciated by other Goreans, and are not looked down on. My virginity had been checked at various times. Teibar had done it on Earth, in the library; it had been done in the house of my training, shortly after I had arrived there; it had been done outside Brundisium, by the wholesaler there, and in Market of Semris twice, once when I had arrived there, by the men of Teibar of Market of Semris, and once before I had left, by Hendow’s man. It had also been checked when I had arrived here, and again, this afternoon, before I had been bedecked in these beads I wore, slave beads. 
“How are you, my dear?” asked Tamirus. 
“Very good, Master,” I said. “Thank you, Master.” 
“On your back, idiot,” said Tupita. 
I looked at her, angrily. 
By the leashes, pulling up and twisting, to my surprise, handling me quite easily, with surprising expertness, she and Sita pulled me up, half on my feet, and then brought me back, gasping, off balance, and lowered me to my back. I had not realized their skill, nor how easily I could he controlled by the two leashes. There are many tricks, of course, with leashes, in the management of slaves. Tupita held down my right wrist, and Sita my left wrist. 
“Throw your legs apart or we will do this differently,” said Tupita. 
I obeyed, on my back, on the dancing floor. There are various attitudes in which the virginity of a girl may be checked. The least embarrassing to her is probably this one. 
Tamirus was careful with me, and gentle. He checked twice, delicately. 
“Thank you, Master,” I said to him, gratefully. 
He stood up. “It is as certified by the house of Hendow,” he said. “The slave is a virgin.” 
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 186 - 187 

“I know those you mean,” he said. “No, they were the stabilization serums. We give them even to slaves.” 
“What are they?” I asked. 
“You do not know?” he asked. 
“No,” I said. 
“They are a discovery of the caste of physicians,” he said. “They work their effects on the body.” 
“What is their purpose?” I asked. 
“Is there anything in particular which strikes you generally, statistically, about the population of Gor?” he asked. 
“Their vitality, their health, their youth,” I said. 
“Those are consequences of the stabilization serums,” he said. 
“I do not understand,” I said. 
“You will retain your youth and beauty, curvaceous slave,” he said. “That is the will of masters.” 
“I do not understand,” I said, frightened. 
“Ageing,” he said, “is a physical process, like any other. It is, accordingly, accessible to physical influences. To be sure, it is a subtle and complex process. It took a thousand years to develop the stabilization serums. Our physicians regarded ageing as a disease, the drying, withering disease, and so attacked it as a disease. They did not regard it as, say, a curse, or a punishment, or something inalterable or inexplicable, say, as some sort of destined, implacable fatality. No. They regarded it as a physical problem, susceptible to physical approaches. Some five hundred years ago, they developed the first stabilization serums.” 
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 472 - 473 

One hires a warrior for one thing, one hires a scribe for another. One does not expect a scribe to know the sword. Why, then, should one expect the warrior to know the pen? An excellent example of this sort of thing is the caste of musicians which has, as a whole, resisted many attempts to develop and standardize a musical notation. Songs and melodies tend to be handed down within the caste, from one generation to another. If something is worth playing, it is worth remembering, they say. On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge. Physicians, interestingly, perhaps for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans. Many craftsmen, incidentally, keep such things as formulas for certain kinds of glass and alloys, and manufacturing processes, generally, in cipher. Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor. Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local. 
Magicians of Gor Book 25 Page 394

Record Keeping 

"On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the Caste knowledge. Physicians, interestingly, perhaps for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans." Magicians of Gor pg. 394

Position of the Physician Caste

 "How is leadership determined in these cities? ..."Rulers are chosen from any High Caste." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 42

"The High Castes in a given city, elect an administrator and council for stated terms." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 42

"The High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 41

"The tier nearest the floor, which denoted some preferential status, the white tier, was occupied by the Initiates, interpreters of the will of Priest Kings. In order, the ascending tiers, blue, yellow, green, and red were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 62

Birth right

"The Caste structure is relatively immobile, but is not frozen, and depends on more than birth. For example, if a child in his schooling shows that he can raise Caste, as the expression is, he is permitted to do so. But, similarly, if a child does not show the aptitude expected of his Caste, whether it be, say, that of the Physician or Warrior, he is lowered in Caste." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 42

"I knew that the Gorean Caste lines though largely following birth were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his Caste might be allowed by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another Caste and the willingness of the members of the new Caste to accept him as a Caste Brother." Priest Kings of Gor pg. 71

Compassion

 "He had in the course of his practice in Turia once given treatment outside the walls to a young Tuchuk warrior, whose name was Kamchak, for this aid given an enemy he had been exiled." Marauders of Gor pg. 18

"Perhaps it was because he could not stand pain that he remained a member of the Caste of Physicians." Priest Kings of Gor pg. 71

"Perhaps he always wanted to stop suffering even that of animal or slave." Priest Kings of Gor pg. 71

"You are Flaminius, he who had long ago loved men and chosen to wear the green robes of the Caste of Physicians." Assassins of Gor pg. 386

Medical Technology

" Be that as it may, the Priest Kings have limited man severely on this planet in many respects, notably in weaponry, communication, and transportation. On the other hand, the brilliance which men might have turned to destructive channels was then diverted, almost of necessity, to other fields, most notably medicine" Assassin of Gor pg. 30

"On the other hand, you will learn that in lighting, shelter, agricultural techniques, and medicine, for example, the Mortals, or Men Below the Mountains, are relatively advanced." Tarnsman of Gor pg. 31

"On the first day the Physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his Caste, examined me, thoroughly. The instruments he used, the tests he performed, the samples he required were not unlike those of Earth. Further, certain pieces of his instrumentation were clearly far from primitive. For example, there was a small machine with gauges and dials. In this he would place slides, containing drops of blood and urine, flecks of tissue, a strand of hair. with a stylus he would note readings on the machine, and on a small screen at the top of the machine, I saw, vastly enlarged, what reminded me of an image witnessed under a microscope." Captive of Gor pg. 92-93

"The ointment will soon be absorbed," she said , "In a few minutes there will be no trace of it nor of the cuts." "The Physicians of Treve," I said, "have marvelous medicines" "It is an ointment of Priest Kings," she said." Priest Kings of Gor pg. 64

Medical Training

"I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under the masters appointed by Kazrak.   Priest Kings of Gor pg. 306

"Though one is commonly born into a Caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served." Fighting Slave of Gor pg. 209

Practice of Free Women

"A notable exception to the generalization that woman of a Caste normally do not engage in Caste work is the Caste of Physicians, whose women are commonly trained, as are the boys, in the practice of medicine. Even the Physicians however, normally do not admit their women to full practice until they have borne two children." Fighting Slave of Gor pg. 210

"The women of the Physicians, at the age of fifteen, in many cities, wear two bracelets on her left wrist. When has one child one bracelet is removed; when she has a second child the second bracelet is removed. She may then, if she desires, enter into the full practice of her craft." Fighting Slave of Gor pg. 210

Slaves in the Caste

"Free Women, and even some Turian slave girls, went to and fro, bringing water and, here and there, where there was point in it, binding wounds." Nomads of Gor pg. 263

"In the eyes of Goreans and Gorean Law. The slave is an animal. she has no name, save what her Master might choose to call her. She is without Caste. She is without citizenship." Hunters of Gor pg. 148-149

"I have not mentioned, either , slaves with professional competences, such as medicine or law." Fighting Slave of Gor pg. 165

"One of the humans by the wall, a girl knelt by him, holding a cloth, trying to stanch the bleeding. It was Vika! ..."Quick Cabot! " "I must make a tourniquet! " "Vika took the cloth from the wound and ripping it and using a small steel bar from the sheared wall, quickly fashioned a tourniquet wrapping it securely about the remains of the mans arm. The Physicians daughter did the work swiftly, expertly." Priest Kings of Gor pg. 245

" I had lain in pain and fever in my cabin, in the small stern castle of the Tesephone. It seemed that Sheera had cared for me, and that is the fitful wakings, I had seen her face, intent above mine, and felt her hand and a warmth, and sponging at side." Hunters of Gor pg. 249

Slaves and medical instruments

"Beside her on the floor, rested a laver of polished bronze, filled with water, a towel, and a straight-bladed Gorean shaving knife." "I shivered thinking of the blade and my throat" Priest Kings of Gor pg. 34

"She went and brought pins, tiny scissors, a needle and thread. The alteration of my slave rag was apparently the first order of the days business." Slave girl of Gor pg. 78

Artificial Insemination

"I have never been in the arms of a man before, she said, for the men of Tharna may not touch women. I must have looked puzzled. The Caste of Physicians, she said, under the direction of the High Council of Tharna, arranges these matters." Outlaw of Gor pg. 106

Birth of an Alar baby 

"The tiny baby, not minutes old, with tiny gasps and coughs, still startled and distressed with the sharp, frightful novelty of breathing air, never again to return to the shelter of its mothers body, lost in a chaos of sensation, its eyes not focused, unable scarcely to turn its head from side to side, lay before him. The cord had been cut and tied at its belly. Its tiny legs and arms moved. The the membranes and fluids had been wiped from its small hot red firm body. Then it had been rubbed with animal fat." Mercenaries of Gor pg 46.

Differences between Red Hunter and Red Savage Babies

"Their is (Red Savages) are not born with a blue spot at the base of the spine, as in the case with most of the Red Hunters." Savages of Gor pg 35.

Cleanliness habits of Tahari Mothers resulting in low infant mortality rate. 

"Another habit of nomads, or of nomad mothers, is to frequently bathe small childeren, even if it is only with a cloth and a cup of water. There is a very low infant mortality rate among nomads, in spite of their limited diet and harsh environment." Tribesmen of Gor pg 171.

Comparison of infant nursing habits

"It might be of interest to note that childeren of the nomads are suckled for some eighteen months, which is nearly twice the normal length of time for Earth infants, and half again the normal time for Gorean infants." Tribesmen of Gor pg 170.

Gynecology

(Speaking of the differences in menstration ages between Red Savage and Red Hunters). "Their daughters (Red Savages) menstrate earlier (than Red Hunter daughters)" Savages of Gor pg 35.

"The buyers were also informed that I was `glana' or a virgin. The correlated term is `metaglana,' used to designate the state to which the glana state looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. Though the word was not used of me I was also `profalarina', which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating, that of `falarina,' the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. In both terms, `glana' and `profalarina,' incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, state to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of `metaglana' or `falarina.' Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not the as been `opened' for the uses of men. Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are `white silk' and `red silk', for s who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively." Dancer of Gor, pg 128.

Terms referring to the virginity of Free Women.

"Glana denotes the state of virginity and metaglana dentotes the state succeding viginity." Savages of Gor pg 203.

"Another way of drawing distinction is in terms of falarina and profalarina. Profalarina designates the state preceding falarina which is the state of a woman who has been penetrated at least once by a male." Savages pg 203.

Slave wine and the prevention of pregancy.

"Slave wine is bitter intentionally so. Its effect last for more than a Gorean month. I did not wish the females to conceive, A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her Masters intention to breed her." Marauders of Gor pg 23,24.

"He proffered me a cup and I with one hand holding the blanket about me with the other drank its contents. It was a foul brew but I downed it. I did not know at the time but it was slave wine. Men sledom breed upon their slave s." Slave of Gor pg 69.

"I held the object before her. She regarded it with dismay, I have already chewed sip root within the moon, she said. She did not need the sip root of course for as she had pointed out she had had some within the moon and indeed the effect of sip root in the raw state in most women is three or four moons." Brothers of Gor pg 319.

Slave wine lasting indefinately

"In the concentrated state as in slave wine developed by the Caste of Physicians the effect ( of sip root ) is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered to a slave in what is called breeding wine or second wine." Brothers of Gor pg 319.

"Have you had your slave wine?" asked Ina. "Yes," I said. This is not really wine, or an alcoholic beverage. It is called slave wine I think for the amusement of the Masters. It is extremely bitter. One draught of the substance is reputed to last until the administration of an appropriate releaser. In spite of this belief however or perhaps in deference to tradition, ing from earlier times, in which, it seems less reliable slave wines were available, doses of this foul stuff are usually administered to female slaves at regular intervals usually once or twice a year. Some s rather cynical ones, I suspect speculate that the Masters give it to them more often than necessary just because they enjoy watching them down the terrible stuff." Dancer of Gor pg 174.

Slave wine makes sense in a slave-holding ure, such as Gor. The breeding of slaves, like any sort of domestic animals, and particularly valuable ones, is carefully controlled. As a slave, of course, I could be bred or crossed, when, and however, my master might see fit. It is the same with other animals. . .
. . . When the is taken to the breeding cell or breeding stall, she is normally hooded. Her selected mate is also hooded. In this fashion personal attachments are precluded. She is not there to know in whose arms she lies, or piteously, and in misery, to fall in love, but to be impregnated. And in accord with the prescribed anonymity of the breeding, as would be expected, the slaves do not speak to one another. They may be slain if they do. Their coupling is public, of course, in the sense that the master, or usually, masters, and sometimes others, whether in an official capacity or not, are present, to make any pertinent payments or determinations. Dancer of Gor, pg. 175

"What is it? I asked, startled. It seemed he had produced this almost by magic. It was a soft, leather botalike flask, drawn from within his tunic. Slave wine he said. Need I drink that? I asked, apprehensively. Unless you have had slave wine, he said, I have no intention of taking you through the streets clad as you are. Suppose you are d. I put the flask, which he had opened, to my lips. Its opening was large enough to drink freely from. It is bitter! I said, touching my lips to it. It is the standard concentration, and dosage, he said, plus a little more, for assurance. Its effect is indefinite, but it is normally renewed annually, primarily for symbolic purposes. I could not believe how bitter it was. I had learned from Susan, whom I had once questioned on the matter, the objectives and nature of slave wine. It is prepared from a derivative of sip root. The formula, too, I had learned, at the insistence of masters and slavers, had been improved by the caste of physicians within the last few years. It was now, for most practical purposes, universally effective. Too, as Drusus Rencius had mentioned, its effects, at least for most practical purposes, lasted indefinitely. Have no fear, said Drusus Rencius. The abatement of its effects is reliably achieved by the ingestion of a releaser." Kajira of Gor pg. 130

Second wine - reversing slave wine.

"The active ingredient of breeding wine or second wine is a derivative of teslik." Blood Brothers of Gor pg 320.

Slave Health

"I was then at the infirmary. I had not known if it would be practical place to hide or not. I found that it was not. There the s lay on wooden pallets, on the ground, chained to them by the wrist, ankles and neck." Vagabonds of gor pg. 456

Examination of Barbarians

"The building where I would wait on these days was the house of a Physician. I was taken through a corridor to a special rough room, where slaves were treated. There my camisk would be removed. On the first day the physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his Caste, examined me, thoroughly. The instruments he used, the tests he performed, the samples he required were not unlike those of Earth. Further ceratin peices of equipment were clearly far from primitive. For example there was a small machine with gauges and dials. In this he would place slides, containing drops of , and , flecks of tissue, a strand of hair. With a stylus he would note readings on the machine, and on the small screen at the top of the machine, I saw vastly enlarged what reminded me of an image witnessed under a microscope. He would breifly study the image, and then make further jottings with his stylus. When he was finished he mixed several powders in three or four goblets, adding water to them and stirring them. These I was ordered to drink. The last was peculiarly foul. She requires the Stabilization Serums, said the Physician." Captive of Gor, pg 92-93

Administration of the Stabilization Serums

"They are administered in four shots, said the Physician. The guard took me and threw me, belly down on the platform, fastening my wrists over my head and widely apart, in leather wrist straps. He similarly secured my ankles. The Physician busying himself with fluids and a syringe before a shelf in another part of the room laden with vials. I screamed. The shot was painful. It was entered in the small of my back, over the left hip. They left me secured on the table for several minutes and then the Physician returned to check the shot. There had been apparently no unusual reaction. On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence, and the first shot in the Stabilization Series. On the second, third and fourth day I received the concluding shots of the series. On the fifth day the Physician took more samples. The serums are effective, he told the guard." Captive of Gor pg 93-94.

Examination to determine virginity

"Our Physicians ascertained, said he. That she is only a red silk girl." Assassin of Gor, pg 45

"Tamirus approached me. He wore green robes. I did not know at that time but this indicated he was of the Caste of Physicians. Throw your legs apart or we will do this differently. Tamirus was careful with me and gentle. He checked twice delicately. It is certified by the House of Hendow, he said, the slave is a virgin. Tamirus was signing a paper He replaced the pen in the inkhorn, which closed the horn, shook the paper a bit and held it up. A fellow near him handed it to Mirus. Here is the signed attestation, said Mirus" Dancer of Gor pg 188.

"The buyers were also informed that I was `glana' or a virgin. The correlated term is `metaglana,' used to designate the state to which the glana state looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. Though the word was not used of me I was also `profalarina', which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating, that of `falarina,' the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. In both terms, `glana' and `profalarina,' incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, state to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of `metaglana' or `falarina.' Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not the as been `opened' for the uses of men. Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are `white silk' and `red silk', for s who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively." Dancer of Gor, pg 128.

Description of slave virginity 

"Such expressions ( refering to falarina / profalarina and glana / metaglana ) are commonly to be spoken of and by Free Persons. They are not to be applied to slaves anymore than to a tarsk sow. You were white silk now you are red silk." Savages of Gor, pg 205.

Opening a slave that is spasmodic

"If you should prove unusual in some respect, although this is extremely rare, I said. We can tomorrow, grind one of Grunts trading knives into a lancet, I understand. She shuddered. This seemed to me better than leaving the matter to the red savages. They tend to be impatient in such respects, even with their own women. A homemade lancet, sterilized in boiling water, seemed preferable to a sharpened kailiauk bone or a whittled lodge peg." Savages of Gor, pg 173.

Whipping of slaves - Tending to the wounds physical and mental

"I knew that twenty blows of that fearsome whip could kill some men." Fighting Slave of Gor, pg 207.

"Return him to his kennel, she said. Put balm on his wounds." Fighting Slave of Gor, pg 207.

"Sometimes, said Flaminius, shock cannot be so easliy prevented. Indeed sometimes the lash itself drives the into shock. Then sedations and are called for." Assassin of Gor pg 128.

Use of medications to control the stomach and bowels of slaves 

"Some slaves I have been told sometimes try to swallow small coins but this is foolish. The coin can be produced swiftly enough in such cases by emetics and laxatives." Dancer of Gor, pg 238

Miscellaneous

"Free Women, and even some Turian slaves, went to and fro, bringing water and, here and there, where there was point in it, binding wounds."  Nomads of Gor pg. 263

"The river and forests teemed with life. Fibrous, medicinal, and timber resources alone seemed inexhaustible. A new world, untrapped, beautiful, dangerous, was opened by the river. I think it would be impossible to overestimate its importance." Explorers of Gor pg. 383

Codes of the Physician Caste

It is little wonder then that the cities of Gor support and welcome the fairs. Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by among the silken pavilions. Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques among Caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes in spite of the fact that their respective cities may be hostile. "Priest-Kings of Gor" pg. 9

"A physician entered the booth with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. When the physician had finished the cleansing, chemical sterilization and dressing of the wounds (dagger stab wounds) he left. The scribe paid the physician a tarsk bit."Beasts of Gor pg. 104

"Take the to the pens, said Samos to the guards. With needles remove the message from her scalp."Tribesmen of Gor pg. 24

Gorean Physician's recommendation to Free Women that consult them about frigidity 

 "A familiar bit of advice given by bold Gorean Physicians to Free Women who consult them about their frigidity is, to their scandal, Learn slave dance. Another bit of advice, usually given to a Free Woman being ushered out of his office by a Physician impatient with her imaginary ailments is, Become a slave."Guardsman of Gor pg. 260

Public Health Section

"In another area boiled meat hung on ropes. Insects swarmed about it."Beasts of Gor pg 63

"Further, of course, a body in the Tahari decomposes with great slowness. The flesh of a desert tabuk which dies in the desert, perhaps seperated from its heard, and unable to find water, if undisturbed by salivary juices of predators, remains edible for several days."Tribesmen of Gor pg. 117

Operating Room

"I looked about the room, turning my head painfully, and saw that the room was some sort of operating chamber, filled with instrumentation, with racks of delicate tongs and knives. In one corner there was a large drumlike machine with a pressurized door which might have been a sterilizer."
Priest Kings of Gor pg. 253

Neurosurgery

"Who has done this? I asked. I, said Parp. The operation is not as difficult as you might expect and I have performed it many times. He is a member of the Caste of Physicians, said Kusk, and his manual dexterity is superior even to that of Priest Kings."
Priest Kings of Gor pg. 254

" you are seeing through the eyes of an Implanted One, said Sarm. I gasped. Sarm's antennae curled. Yes, he said, the pupil of his eyes have been replaced with lenses and a control net and transmitting device have been fused with his brian tissue. He himself is now unconscious for the control net is activated. Later we will allow him to rest, and he will see and hear and think again for himself. ...Can he disobey you? I asked. Sometimes there is a struggle to resist the net or regain consciousness, said Sarm. Could a man so resist you that he could throw off the power of the net? I doubt it, said Sarm, unless the net were faulty. If it could be done, I said, what would you do? It is a simple matter, said Sarm, to overload the net's power capacity. You would kill the man? It is only a human, said Sarm." Preist Kings of Gor pg. 136 - 137

Advancement, medical:

 "Thirdly," said the young man," I would like to call your attention to certain medical, or biological, advances, or, at any rate, capabilities, which exist on this supposed world."

"I thought your supposed world was primitive," said the older woman.

"In certain respects, so, in others, not," said the young man. "The particular advance, or capability, I have in mind may be of some interest to you. Let me begin, first of all, by reminding you that certain areas of technology, of investigation, and such, were denied to humans on our supposed world. The energies then which might have been plied into certain channels, those of weapons, electronic communication, mass transportation, large-scale industrial machinery, and such, were diverted into other channels, for example, into the medical, or biological, sciences. In short, the supposed world, whose existence I should like you to entertain for the moment as a possibility, is, in some respects, far advanced over that with which you are most familiar. For example, on the supposed world aging was understood over a thousand years ago not as an inevitability but, in effect, as a disease and, accordingly, it was investigated as such. Clearly it is a physical process and, like other physical processes, it would be subject to various conditions, conditions susceptible to manipulation, or alteration, in various ways." (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, pages 66-67)

Contraceptives:

"While we are on such matters," he said, "I would suppose that it was explained to you that you will later be given a particular drink, the name of which is unimportant now, which will temporarily, but indefinitely, preclude any possibility of biological conception on your part?"

"Yes," she said. "But I fail to understand the need for such a drink. I myself can manage such things. I am the mistress of my own body."

He smiled.

"Was it also explained to you that there is another drink, one which one might think of as a releaser of sorts, which will not only restore your possibility of conception, but ready you for it, indeed, prime you for it, so to speak?" (Prize of Gor, Chapter 7, page 95)

Slave Wine and Sweet Wine/Releaser:

"Have you had your slave wine?" he asked.

"Yes," she said. She shuddered. She had been knelt and held, her head forced back, and cruelly held so by the hair, and her mouth forced open, and the spike of the wooden funnel forced between her teeth. Then the wretched, foul stuff was poured into mouth, her nostrils at the same time being pinched tightly shut. When she had to breathe she must imbibe the slave wine. Afterwards her hands were tied behind her, that she might not induce its vulgar emission.

"You cannot now conceive," he told her. "If a releaser, as one speaks of it, is later administered, which is a quite sweet, flavorful drink I am told, you will again be able to conceive. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 10, page 142)

"Slave wine," which, as administered to slaves, is terribly bitter, from the sip root, found in the Barrens, precluded conception. The "releaser," which is commonly syrupy, and sweet, nullifies the effects of the "slave wine." It is commonly administered to a slave after masters have agreed upon a crossing, and she is to be bred. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 15, page 350)

Dentistry:

Fillings, or lack thereof:

 

"Open your mouth," said the father. "Widely."

"See," said the father, "those tiny bits of metal in the teeth. Not all barbarians have them, but  many do."

"What is their purpose?" asked the boy.

"I do not know," said the father. "Perhaps, it, too, is a slave marking device. Perhaps it serves for purposes of identification."

"I think," said Targo, who had lingered about, and had now wandered back, hopefully, "that it is rather connected with a puberty ceremony, a primitive rite, like the facial scarring of the Wagon Peoples."

"That is interesting," said the father. "Perhaps it is both."

"Perhaps," granted Targo, generously, abandoning logic as socially inexpedient. After all, why should he risk alienating a possible customer. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 17, pages 461-462)

Leeches:

These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes. (leeches) (Prize of Gor, Chapter 20, page 655) 

Menstrual Cycle:

"You bled, as I understand it," he said.

"Yes," she said.

When this had happened she had cried out, and had been alarmed, not understanding what had occurred, it had been so long, and so unexpected. But the women who were now her teachers, three of them, different from before, only one of whom spoke English, and that a broken English, had laughed at her, thinking she must be very stupid. But they had found her water and cloths, that she might clean her leg, and a rag which she might insert into her body. They made her clean the floor of the cell. After all, it was she who had soiled it. Perhaps, surprisingly, the flow had not been negligible, at all, as one might have expected, it beginning again, but had been abundant. She wondered if, while she had been unconscious, it, or things associated with it, had begun again, only she would not then have been aware of such changes in her body. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 7, pages 94-95) 

Stabilization Serums

"Let us return briefly to those medical advances I mentioned earlier, those developed on Gor, or, as it is sometimes spoken of, the Antichthon, the Counter-Earth. Among these advances, or capabilities, if you prefer, are the Stabilization Serums. These ensure pattern stability, the stability of organic patterns, without degradation, despite the constant transformation of cells in the body. As you probably know, every seven years or so, every cell in your body, with the exception of the neural cells, is replaced. The continuity of neural cells guarantees the viability of memory, extending back, beyond various seven-year periods. The Stabilization Serums, in effect, arrest aging, and, thus, preserve youth. Further, the Stabilization Serums also freshen and rejuvenate neural tissue. In this way, one avoids the embarrassment of a declining brain incongruously ensconced in a youthful body. That feature represents an improvement over the original serums and dates from something like five hundred years ago." (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, page 71)

She thought that many men might have preferred her at twenty-eight, the age when she had first met her

master, he then a student in one of her courses. On the other hand, most Gorean slave girls, she had gathered, were as though in their early twenties. Most of the older women, she gathered, had been returned to that point and stabilized there. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 11, pages 211-212)

Stabilization Serums – reverse aging:

"There has been a new development in the Stabilization Serums, or, better, I suppose, serums rather analogous to the Stabilization Serums, a development which has occurred in my own lifetime, indeed, within the last few years," he said. "In this development, though there are dangers associated with it, and it is not always effective, it is often possible to reverse the typical aging process, to an earlier point, and then stabilize it at that point." (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, pages 72-73)

"How long does the treatment take?" she asked.

"It varies," he said. "But it will take several days. Such things take time. Indeed, much of the time, while the changes take place, you will be unconscious. It is best that way. I have decided, in your case, incidentally, that we will think of the treatment as consisting of four major phases, and each will be clearly demarcated for you, for your edification and my amusement. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 5, page 84)

Since her image was not so instantly and clearly available to her as it would have been in a more familiar sort of mirror, she approached it more closely, puzzled, and peered into it. She then gave a soft cry of surprise, for she did not immediately recognize her image in the surface. To be sure, it was she, but she as she had not been for perhaps ten years. The woman who regarded her, wonderingly, from the metal surface might have been in her late forties, not her late fifties. She put her hand gently to her face. Certain blemishes to which she had reconciled herself were gone. There seemed fewer lines in her face. Her throat seemed smoother to her. Her entire body felt differently. It seemed somewhat more supple. Certainly the occasional stiffness in the joints was not now afflicting her, not that it always did. It was not so much that her body did not ache, or that she was not in pain, as that she had the odd sense that something might now be different about her, that her body might not now be so likely to hurt her, in that way, as it had in the past. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 6, pages 87-88)

"You have been returned to a former condition of your body, and have been stabilized at that point," he said. "That is what has been done to you." (Prize of Gor, Chapter 10, page 148) 

Tassa:

"First," he said, "you have been unconscious, for better than forty-eight hours." She regarded him, startled. "That is partly a function of your age," he said. "Younger individuals recover considerably more quickly." (effects of Tassa powder) (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, page 52)

Tassa powder, which was presumably used, as it commonly is in such situations, though doubtless most frequently with younger women, is tasteless, and, dissolved in liquid, colorless. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, page 58)

To be sure, her age might have had something to do with her condition. Tassa powder, which she later

learned was used on her, allegedly has few, if any, lingering aftereffects, or at least, she was assured, on younger women. And it is on such women, of course, considerably younger women, that it is most often used. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, page 64)

"I do not know, Master," she said, confused. "I feel faint, Master."

"You may break position," he said.

She sank to her side on the steps, before the curule chair.

"It is not simply ka-la-na which you have imbibed," he said. "It was mixed with tassa power. You had some weeks ago, on Earth."

She shook her head, trying to retain consciousness. She looked up at him, tears in her eyes.

(Prize of Gor, Chapter 15, page 357)

"You had been given tassa powder," he said.

"Yes, Master," said Ellen.

"How do you feel?" he asked.

"Well, Master," she said.

"Good," he said. "There are usually few, if any, aftereffects. Are you hungry?"

(Prize of Gor, Chapter 16, page 375) 

"After tassa powder," said the man, "a girl is often ravenously hungry. But when the girl awakens in ropes, or chains, she must wait to find out if she is to be fed or not." (Prize of Gor, Chapter 16, page 376)

She also took a drink from the bota, which contained water, as she expected. She feared it might have been drugged, presumably with tasteless tassa powder, to sedate her in the basket, but it had no such effect. (Prize of Gor, Chapter 19, page 617)