Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
A. CHINESE PHYSICIAN.

The Remarkable Methods and Theories
of a Monaghan Devil Destroyer.
Wong Choo Fan, a Chinese doctor, says
the Philadelphia Press, arrived in Phila-
delphia from Chicago yesterday, with the
intention Of making this city his home and
ministering after his own peculiar fash
ion to the ailments of his c0untTymen.
He was so much disappointed to find the
Chinese population so small and lis
health so good that he changed his mind,
and will this morning go to New York.
Wong ChOO Fan is rather diminutiYe
specimen Of the Monaghan race, being
but five feet in height and rather delicate
ly proportional. His head is well shaped
and his animated countenance indicates
degree of intelligence rather above that Of
theaverage Chinaman. The doctor, or ''deYil
destroyer" as he is known in the FlOWery
Kingdom, speaks very excellent English,
and consented, when questioned, to eX-
plain few of his many odd methods for
conquering disease. every sickness"
he SAID, sis caused by Nong TsaO-a
disease devii-and it is the work of the
doctor to find out where the devil is and
drive him out. What you cali fever-hot
skin, dry lips, high pulsC-is the work Of
a little imp with eight mouths, each mouth
having hot, scorching breath. The imp
gets into the PATIENTS stomach by flying
down his throat and is usually in the air
on a damp day like this. This little devil
is as large as a grain of sand, but when
he gets into the human body he grows to
be about as large as bean. He
blows his hot breaths into every vein OF
the victim and causes him great distress
and thirst by drinking all the water in his
stomach. The way to cure the patient is
to poison the imp with powder scraped
41,o9 nci1a Of q which in
the province of Foo Chow"
The doctor exhibited some of the pow
der, which proved to be either quinine or
cmchOnidla.
ssSpasms or fits continued the MOngOl-
liam disciple of 4Esculapius, ''cOme from
the earth devil a creature that lives I'M
der the ground and sends shock into the
victim through his feet. You Will ma
that nearly all persons when first taken
with fits fall while walking, but after
awhile, when the devil gets the victim
weakened, the shock can be communl-
Gated from the earth, through the house
and into the bed. II is very hard TO cure
them. l cured man IN Canton VINO had
been subject to fits, for fifteen years, Dy
rubbing the soles of his feet with Iat
stewed out of a frogs heart. Opium is
very valuable help in such cases when
taken internally, because it makes the
patients feet itch and prevents the devils
| from gaining an entrance. A very small
proportion of Cinnamon die of consump-
| ton, because three hundred years ago It
was discovered by Tsang Loo, learned
| doctor, that people became afflicted with
| the disease by breathing through the
mouth instead of the nose. There are
! millions of imps flying in the air all the
| time-more in cold weather than in warm
and to your eyes they appear like specks
of dust. They cannot get through sthe
nose because the hairs catch them and
they die, but they go into the mouth. where
| there are no hairs, and find resting
| pIace in the lungs. In a short time the
| lungs are dug out and coughed UP. Inc
| only cure is to lay the patFent on his back
and beat him over the cRc, Awith switch
until the imps are frigh Sid and fly out
| into the air again. TheAche patient is
| starved for Sc hours, and has his mouth
| sealed up. Very often he dies, but that
is because all the imps were not driven
| out"
Wong Choo Fan talked earnestly, and
| evidently believed that his theory and
| treatment were correct beyond any ques-
ton. He affected to look upon the methods
| of English and American physicians with
| disdain. He exhibited statistics to show
| that the rate of mortality in Pekin, Hong
! Kong and Canton was , per cent. less
than in English cities Of the same popu-
| lation. DIR. Wong ChOo Fan offered otry
his skill on the reporter, who was suffer
ing with a cold, but the offer was declined
| with thanks.