The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-22
A Chinese Physician.

Wong Choo Fan, a Chinese doctor,
arrived in Philadelphia with the inten-
ton Of making this city his home, and
ministering after his own peculiar
fashion to the ailments Of his country.
men. He was disappointed to find the
Chinese population so small and Its
health so good and will 60 to New
York.
Wong Choo Fan is rather diminu-
tive specimen of the Mongolian race
being but five feet In height and rath-
er delicately proportioned. The doc
tor. or devil destroyer, as he is
known in the Fiowery Kingdom, speaks
very excellent English, and consented.
when questioned. to explain few Of
his many odd methods for conquering
disease. Every sickness" he said,
lis 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 hOi, scorching
breath. The imp gets into the patients
stomach by flying down his throat and
is usually in the air on damp day
like this. The 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 a bean. He blows
bis hot breath into every vein Of the
victim and causes him great distress
and thirst by drinking al the water in
his stomach. The way to cure the pa
tent is to poison the imp with a 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 quiz
nine 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 a
shock into the victim through his feet.
You will find that all persons when
first taken with fits fall while walking,
but after while, 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 rubbing the soles
of his feet with fat stewed out of a
frogs heart. Opium is very valuable
help in such cases when taken intern
ally, because it makes the patients
feet itch and prevents the devil from
gaining an entrance a very small
proportion of Cinnamon die of con-
sumption, because 800 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 and millions of imps fly
inc 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 30 into the mouth,
where there are no hairs, and find q
resting place in the lungs. In a short
time the lungs are dug out and coughed
up. The only cure is to lay the pa
tient 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"