The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-09-18
A MONGOLIAN PHYSICIAN.
Remarkable Methods for Cur
ing Disease.
Queer Diagnoses Of Sickness and Odd
Ways Of Curing It

Wong Choo Fan, Chinese doctor,
arrived recently in Philadelphia with
the intention OF making this city his
home, and ministering after his own
peculiar fashion to the ailments Of his
countrymen. He was disappointed to
find the Chinese population so small
and its health so good and went to
New York.
Wong Choo Fan is rather a diminu-
tive specimen of the Mongolian race,
being but five feet in hight and rather
delicately proportioned. The doctor,
or "devil destroyer" as he is known in
the Flowery Kingdom, speaks very ex-
cellent English, and consented, when
questioned, to explain a few Of his
many odd methods for conquering dis
ease. every Sickness" he said, "is
caused by Nong Tsao-a disease
devil-and it is the work of the doc
tor 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 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. The little devil is as large
as 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 pa
tient is to poison the imp with pow
der scraped from the inside of tree
which grows in the Province of Foo
Chow"
The doctor exhibited some of the
powder, which proved to be either qui-
nine or cinchonidia.
"Spasms or fits" continued the Mon
| golian disciple of Esculapius, "come
from the earth devil a creature that
lives under the ground and sends a
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 victim weakened, the
shock can be communicated from the
earth, through the house and into the
bed. 1t is very hard to cure them. /
cured man in Canton who had been
subject to fits for fifteen years by rub
bing the soles of his feet with tat
stewed out of frogs heart. Opium
is very valuable help when taken in
ternally, because it makes the patients
feet itch and prevents the devils from
gaining an entrance. A very small
proportion of Cinnamon die of con-
sumption, because 300 years agoit was
discovered by Tsang Loo, a learned
doctor, that people became afflicted
with the disease by breathing through
the mouth instead Of the nose. There
are millions and millions of imps fly
ing through 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
resting place in the lungs. In a short
time the lungs are dug out and coughed
up. The only cure is to lay the patient
on his back and beat him over 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"