The Delta independent., 1889-07-23
Chinese Prescriptions.

The New York Chinese doctors are
beginning to lose their hold upon their
heretofore devoted clients. This has
been accomplished by simple but solid
American genius. 1t has been the GUS
tom ever since the Chinese colony be-
gan to 'put on airs'' in New York for
sick Cinnamon from all parts OF the
country this siue Of the Rocky noun
tains to come to Gotham to consult
with their big medicine men. of whom
there are over dozen who have their
fantastic shingles hung up In Mott
street upon the door OF their domi-
Giles. Besides this they give a bigger
prescription and heavier doses than
their American competitors. These
Chinese physicians will devote from
two to Six hours to feeling your pulse,
and all for the munificent sum of from
quarter to fifty-cent piece.
Imagine man who, having taken .
big dose OF opium with tho avowed
purpose OF having his carcass housed
in evergreen cemetery as early as pos
sible, SO that his bones may be ready
for speedy shipment to China, having
doctor with big round eyeglasses sit
down and feel the poor fellows pulse
for two hours and a half and then give
him the following prescription 10 be
boiled into a soup and then drank:
'.Pickled lizards, four pairs, four
male aud four female; Corea ginseng
root, half an ounce; willow cricket
skins, half dozen, three males and
three females; sweet potato vines, one
ounce; white nuts, one ounce, lotos
leaves, half an ounce; rattlesnake tail,
quarter Of an ounce; black dates, two
ounccs; elm bark, half an ounce;
devilfish toes, two ounces; deer's horn,
half an ounce; birds claws, quarter Of
an ounce; dried ginger, quarter. OF an
ounce; coffin nails .(old ones), half an
ounce. Boil the whole with two
quarts of water until only half of the
water is left and then driuk it as q
preliminary DOSE"
Such was the prescription given
last Friday afternoon TO poor
laundryman on the corner OF Broome
and Delaney streets by a Chinese doc.
tor who said his Office was at 10 Mott
street. But, fortunately for the patient
before the famous prescription was
put up by Chinese druggist on Mott
street, his friend All Sing rushed TO an
American doctor near Chinatown.
The latter went to the dying man and
restored him to consciousness before
the deadly messenger got back.
Here Is another prescription given
to Wong All Sing OF 8 Mott street some
time ago for cancer. which the doctor
and his colleagues had deem trying to
cure for the past iour years. But they
didn't cure it. At last tho poor fellow
was nearly dead and the doctors at the
New York hospital got hold of the
patient and cured him In less than
three weeks.
This is the prescription for the cure
OF cancer translated from the origi-
nal:
.'Raw earth, 8 ounces; winter wheat 8
ounces; ginseng pills, 3: spriR OF cinnamon,
~ ounces; aniseseed oil, ounce; red dogs
tail, ounce; peach skin, 1 ounce; clam
she'll ounces; sandal wood. 8 ounces;
dandelion, dried, ounce. Mix and boil
with water; take 1t seven times Q day.
.DR. Cno PINo."
The dozen or more sick Cinnamon
who have recently been drugged near
ly to death by such wonderful COM
pounds many have been subsequently
cured by American physicians when
they had been given up As hopeless by
their own physician. These examples
OF their own doctors inefficiency is the
principal cause OF their recent down.
fall.-Wong Chin Foo In New York
World.