Bazi Plague A deadly, rapidly- spreading disease with no known cure; its symptoms include pustules which appear all over the body, and a yellowing of the whites of the eyes.

"We are going to test you for pox," he said. The girl groaned. It was my hope that none on board the Clouds of Telnus had carried the pox. It is transmitted by the bites of lice. The pox had appeared in Bazi some four years ago. The port had been closed for two years by the merchants. Ithad burned itself out moving south and eastward in some eighteen months. Oddly neough some were immune to the pox, and with others it had only a temporary, debilitating effect. With others it was swift, lethal and horrifying. Those who had survived the pox would presumably live to procreate themselves, on the hwole presumably transmitting their immunity or relative immunity to their offspring. Slaves who contracted the pox were often summarily slain. It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi." Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, pages 325 - 326 " 'My pursuit of you was foiled,' I said, 'by the results of the drug you placed in my paga.' 'The drug,' said Shaba, 'as a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague.' 'I could have been killed,' I said, 'by the mob.' 'I did not think many would care to approach you,' said Shaba. 'It was not your intention then that I be killed?' I asked. 'Certainly not,' said Shaba. 'If that was all that was desired, kanda might have been introduced into your drink as easily as sajel and gieron.' " Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 154 ~才

Dar-Kosis or Holy disease: an incurable, wasting disease akin to the Earth disease of leprosy.

"The figure seemed to shrink backward and grow smaller in its yellow rags. Pointing to its shadowed, concealed face, it whispered, 'The Holy Disease.' That was the literal translation of Dar-Kosis - the Holy Disease - or, equivalently, the Sacred Affliction. The disease is named that because it is regarded as being holy to the Priest-Kings, and those who suffer from it are regarded as consecrated to the Priest-Kings. Accordingly, it is regarded as heresy to shed their blood. On the other hand, the Afflicted, as they are called, have little to fear from their fellow men. Their disease is so highly contagious, so invariably devastating in its effect, and so feared on the planet that even the boldest of outlaws gives them a wide berth. Accordingly, the Afflicted enjoy a large amount of freedom of movement on Gor. They are, of course, warned to stay away from the habitations of men, and, if they approach too closely, they are sometimes stoned. Oddly enough, casuistically, stoning the Afflicted is not regarded as a violation of the Priest-Kings's supposed injunction against shedding their blood. As an act of charity, Initiates have arranged at various places Dar-Kosis Pits where the Afflicted may voluntarily imprison themselves, to be fed with food hurled downwards from the backs of passing tarns. Once in a Dar-Kosis Pit, the Afflicted are not allowed to depart. Finding this poor fellow in the Voltai, so far from the natural routes and fertile areas of Gor, I suspected he might have escaped, if that was possible, from one of the Pits. 'What is your name?' I asked. 'I am of the Afflicted,' said the weird, cringing figure. 'The Afflicted are dead. The dead are nameless.'" Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 150 - 151 "At any rate disease is now almost unknown amoung the gorean cities, with the exception of the dreaded Dar-Kosis disease or the holy disease, reasearch upon which is generally frowned upon by the Caste of Initiates who insist the disease is a visitation of the displeasure of the Priest-Kings on its recipients. The fact that the disease tends to strike those who have maintained the observances recommended by the Caste of Initiates, and who regularly attend their numerous cermonies, as well as those who do not, is seldom explained, though when pressed, the Initiates speak of possible secret failures to maintain the observances or the inscrutable will of Priest-Kings." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 30 ~才

Age and Stabilization Serums A series of medical injections which, among other things, retards the aging process; an invention of the Priest-Kings, approved by them for use by humans; administered in 4 injections.

"The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs. Age, on Gor, interestingly, was regarded, and still is, by the caste of Physicians as a disease, not an inevitable natural phenomenon. the fact that it seemed a universal disease did not dissuade the caste from considering how it might be combated. Accordingly the work of centuries was turned to this end. Many other diseases, which presumably flourished centuries ago on Gor, tended to be neglected, as less dangerous and less universal then that of aging. A result tended to be that those less susceptible lived on, propagating their kind." Book 5, Assassins of Gor, page 29 ~才 "But different human beings respond differently to the stabilization Serums, and the Serums are more effective with some then others. With some the effect lasts indefinitely, with others it wears off after but a few hundred years, with some the effect does not occur at all, with others, tragically, the effect is not to stabilize the pattern but to hasten its degeneration. The odds however, are in favor of the recipient, and there are few Goreans who, if it seems they need the Serums, do not avail themselves of them." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 31 ~才 " 'She requires the Stabilization Serums,' said the physician. The guard nodded. 'They are administered in four shots,' said the physician. He nodded to a heavy, beamed, diagonal platform in a corner of the room. 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. They physician was 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 to the table for several minutes and then the physician returned to check the shot. There had been, apparently, no unusual reaction." Book 7, Captive of Gor, pages 93 - 94 ~才 "I had spent eight days in the slave pens, waiting the night of the sale. I had been examined medically, in detail, and had had administered to me, while I lay bound, helplessly, a series of painful shots, the purpose of which I did not understand. They were called the stabilization serums. We were also kept under harsh discipline, close confinement and given slave training. I well recalled the lesson which was constantly enforced upon us: "The master is all. Please him fully." 'What is the meaning of the stabilization serums?' I had asked Sucha. She had kissed me. 'They will keep you much as you are,' she said, 'young and beautiful.' I had looked at her, startled. 'The masters, and the free, of course, if there is need of it, you must understand, are also afforded serums of stabilization,' she said adding, smiling, 'though they are administered to them I suppose, with somewhat more respect than they are to a slave.' 'If there is need of it?' I asked. 'Yes,' she said. 'Do some not require the serum?' I asked. 'Some, said Sucha, 'but these individuals are rare, and are the offspring of individuals who have had the serums.' 'Why is this?' I asked. 'I do not know,' said Sucha 'Men differ.' The matter, I supposed, was a function of genetic subtleties, and the nature of differing gametes. The serums of stabilization effected, it seemed, the genetic codes, perhaps altering or neutralizing certain messages of deterioration, providing, I supposed, processes in which an exchange of materials could take place while tissue and cell patterns remained relatively constant. Ageing was a physical process and, as such, was susceptible to alteration by physical means. All physical processes are theoretically, reversible. Entropy itself is presumably a moment in a cosmic rhythm. The Physicians of Gor, it seemed, had addressed themselves to the conquest conquest of what had hitherto been a universal disease called on Gor the drying and withering disease, called on Earth, ageing. Generations, of intensive research and experiementation had taken place. At last a few physicians drawing upon the accumulated data ot hundreds of investigators, had achieved the breakthrough, devising the first primitive stabilization serums, later to be developed and exquisitely refined. I had stood in the cage startled, trembling. 'Why are serums of such value given to slaves?' I asked. 'Are they of such value?' she asked 'Yes,' she said, 'I suppose so.' She took them for granted, much as the humans of Earth might take for granted routine inoculations. She was unfamiliar with ageing. The alternative to the serums was not truly clear to her. 'Why should slaves not be given the serums?' she asked. 'Do the masters not want their slaves healthy and better able to serve them?' " Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 282

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