Slave Health

I was then at the infirmary. I had not known if it would be a practical place to hide or not.  I found that it was not.  There the girls lay on wooden pallets, on the ground, chained to them by the wrist, andles and neck.
-Vagabonds of Gor, p456

(Examination of a new slave/barbarian girl)
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 certain pieces 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 blood, and urine, 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 briefly 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, p92-93

(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, pp93-94

(Physicians examine to determine virginity of new slaves)
"Our Physicians ascertained," said he, "that she is only a red silk girl."
-Assassin of Gor, p45

(Physicians examine to determine virginity of new slaves)
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, p188

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 girl has been "opened" for the uses of men.  Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are "white silk" and "red silk," for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively.
-Dancer of Gor, p128

(Description of slave virginity)
"Such expressions [referring 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, p205

(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 Grunt's 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, p173

(Whipping of slaves - Tending wounds physical and mental)
[speaking of the snake whip] I knew that twenty blows of that fearsome whip could kill some men.
-Fighting Slave of Gor, p207

(Jason, after being whipped with the snake whip)
"Return him to his kennel," she said.  "Put balm on his wounds."
-Fighting Slave of Gor, p207

"Sometimes," said Flaminius, "shock cannot be so easliy prevented. Indeed sometimes the lash itself drives the girl into shock. Then sedations and drugs are called for."
-Assassin of Gor, p128

(Using medications to control the stomachs and bowels of slaves)
Some girls 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, p238