The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-13
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser,
~NlTrRDAY. WlRCH I3.

H,w,u,x Docrpus. ANp \ P-Ycuo-PnY-IoLocIc,L
PrIScuurIov.-A Hawaiian doctor. by the name Of
Ehu, Is making quite a sensation among all the na-
tiycs who are possessed Of any kind Of disease.
That these constitute "a large share OF the population
j. no more than can be said % more enlightened
communities. This practitioner, now fast attaining
notoriciy. lately came from Hawaii 10 obtain a license
under the new law. Whether it will be granted or
not, or whether it has already been granted. we 10
not yet know. No matter for that-whcrcycr he
goes, a crowd awaits his footsteps. listen 10 his oracu-
lar uttcauccs, and, going and returning, more than
double the travel on the highway leading TO his resi-
dcucc. \ story is told. which, whether it has any
foundation ia truth or not, may be suggestive To
iellow-practitioners. \ white man came to him for
advice. "lou have such and such symptoms" said
the doctor, naming the same. YES" "Nou are
worshiping something ~ worship the Almighty,
no one else" All! but you are worshiping some
thing" NO., | am not" Now, see here; you
have Just come from America" "Yes." For
your health" "Ncs.' "One Of your family died
before YOU left" yes" s'Your sister" YES
:. Now, have you not "a lock of her hair in your desk
or drawer, and do you not take it out frequently and
look at it with aloha?" "Yes, | do" " now,
YOU 60 and burn that up, aud stop thinking 50 much
Of that subject, and you will get well. You are
worshipiug that relic" The story is-a native re-
lated it to us-tha the haole did 80, and soon inn
proved in health. Going again to the physician to
report progress, hc offered him a twenty-dollar gold
piece, or "A couple of them, some say. Keep your
money! said the benevolent doctor, u have gwen
you no medicine; you have only cured yourself
Considering the source of the story, it has some in
terest, at all events.
Another one, and more certainly true, is as fol-
lows: Being called to prescribe IN a somewhat nu-
merOus household, one member after another ap-
pcarel before him, and detailed their respective all
ments. Without personal examination he sent them
successfully, one by one. to his assistant-quack
doctor style-whom he is compelled to employ through
press of business, and who stood without the door.
Each, rs it happened, received just the same pre-
scription,-a compound Of cocoanut buds, and roots
of yOhUehuc,-a thick-leayel vine that grows on the
sand-banks Of Waikiki. Paterfamilias, of the house
hold, then said, My wife is in an interesting con-
dition; when will the expected event take place -
Doctor without hesitation named the day. Now if
it does 50 happen. we will believe you, and you shall
get your pay, even 10 the half of this house; if not,
you won't" II is needless to add that the day, and
many other days went by, and no "event" came;
and more encouraging to add also, that the prescrip-
tons were kicked to the dogs.
Ohc way OF ADMINISTERING meIiclnes, sllu 10 De
practiced 10y this eminent medical adviser, is after
this fashion. \ long row Of patients take their seats
ON the ground, or floor, stretching out their bare
tced feet straight before them. The assistant then
his mouth with medical preparations and, walking
along in front, blows forth upon each exposed ex-
tremity. Then, similarly travelling behind the row
Of backs, lac performs the same operation on the
summit Of each Uranium, on the late-formed suturc
the MaRalra - This is doubtless a fair speci-
men Of the practice Of the class of healing angels
styled Rahund Hliraii. We shall probably see ere
long, as the result Of the two hundred applications
Of the members of this school Of practitioners, a
list, by Authority, of the licensed; unless
rs We hope-the good sense of the medical authority
has, " at his discretion the final issuing of
the said licenses, shall interpOse. His Excelleucy
will, we trust, remember his own superior medical
education, and exercise tic aforementioned discrc-
conferred by law.