The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-23
\ Chinese Physician.
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Wong Choo Fan, a Chinese doctor. arrived in Philadelphia with the intention of making this city his holne, and minis tering after his own peculiar fashion to the ailments of his countrymen. He was disappointed to find the Chinese popula- ton SO small and its health 90 good and will go to Nev York.
 Wong Choo Fan is rather diminutive specimen of the Mongolian race, being but five feet in height and rather deii- cately proportioned. The doctor, or " devil destroyer" as he is known in the Flowery Kingdom, speaks very excellent English, and consented, when questioned, to explain a few ot his many odd methods for conquering disease. "Evesy sickness" he said Sis caused by a Nong T'sao-a disease devil '-and it is the work of the doctor to find out where the devil is and drive him out. What you call fever-hot skin, dry lips, high pulse |-is the work of little imp with eight mouths, each mouth having a hot, scorching breath. The imp gets iato the patients stomach by flying down his throat and is usually in the air on damp day like this. The little devil is a large as grain of sand, but when he gets into the human body he grows to be abou, 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 a powder scraped from the inside of a tree which grows in the province of Foo Chow"
 The doctor exhibited some of the pow der, which proved to be either quinine or cinchonidia.
 "Spasms or fits" continued the Mon- golian disciple of Esculapius, "come from the earth devil creature that lives under the ground and sends shock into the victim through his feet. You will find that nearly all persons when first taken with fits fall while walking, but after awhile, when the devil gets the vic tim weakened, the shock can be commu- nicated from the earth, through the house and into the bed. It is very hard to cure them. cured a man in Canton who had been subject to fits for fifteen years by rubbing the soles of his feet with fat stewed out of 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 Chinamen die of consump- ton, because 500 years ago it was dis covered by T'sang Loo, . learned doctor, that people became afflicted with the dis ease by breathing through the mouth in- stead of the nose. There are millions and 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 the nose because the hairs catch them and they die, but they go into the mouth, where there are no hairs, and find a rest ing place in the lungs. In short time the lungs are dug out and coughed up. The only cure is to Lay the patient on his back and beat him ovex the chest with switch until the imps are frightened and fly out into the air again. Then the patient is starved for thirty-six hours and has his mouth sealed up. Very often he dies, but that is because all the imps were not driven out"