Given this humiliating treatment it is not surprising to read about soldiers in that particular ward resisting treatment98 and sometimes physically fighting the authorities. In one incident the patients went on the rampage in the hospital taking the glass out of the window frames and urinating on the floor and in the drinking water containers. Since most of them were young and "able-bodied" and since they "were not afflicted with diseases that would prevent their doctors from treating them harshly," it was suggested that they be punished with "severe bodily penalties . . . because reprimanding them has not worked so far."

XREF: Connects to earlier claims about soldiers' resistance to conscription and coercion (loc 593, loc 459, loc 471), extending that resistance into the medical sphere. Builds on: "Soldiers' denial defeated medical efforts to quarantine the diseased."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1157