feldsher

"Come, husband, praying is of little avail," answered his practical wife; "we must have a feldsher" (doctor).

The Jew was exhausted, hardly breathing, but that did not prevent the feldsher from cupping him twelve times.

I shall dismiss my feldsher, close the barracks, and if the cholera comes, I shall cut rather a comic figure.

"You are a Feldsher," I said, making use of the word which I had recently added to my vocabulary.