Мирното ежедневие на четниците на ВМОРО 1900–1913 г. (Изхранване и лечение)
The Peacetime Daily Life of IMARO Guerilla Fighters 1900–1913 (Food and Medical Treatment)

Summary/Abstract: The efforts towards the provision of food and the medical treatment took a major part of the peacetime daily life of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) guerilla fighters in the period 1900 to 1913. The staples were bread, milk and cheese. Meat (goat’s and mutton) as well as soup were more or less a luxury. Food was provided by trustworthy peasants-affiliates from the nearby villages, chetniks fetching food from the homes of IMARO sworn-in members and through coercion – threats, frauds etc. The medical treatment that the chetniks received was in general traditional herbal medicine and more rarely were treated with pharmaceutical medication. They were treated on the spot, in the force group, in the homes of IMARO affiliates and when the health issue was more serious, they were sent through well developed network of illegal channels to independent Bulgaria where they were treated by professional medical doctors.

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