, 1889-06-21
CHINESE PRESCRIPTIONS.
Some of the Horrible Doses the Doctors
Mix for Their Patients

Mix for Their Patients
The New York Chinese doctors are be
ginning 10 lose their hold upon their
heretofore devoted clients. This has
been accomplished by simple but solid
American medical genius. 1t has been
the custom ever since the Chinese colony
began to put on airs" in New York for
sick Cinnamon from all parts of the
country this side of the Rocky mount
aims TO come to Gotham to consult with
their big medicine men, of whom there
are over a dozen who have their fantastic
shingles hung up in Mott street upon the
doors of their domiciles. Besides this,
they give a bigger prescription and
heavier doses thar their American com
petitors. These Chinese physicians will
devote from two TO six hours to feeling
your pulse, and all for the munificent
sum Of from a quarter 10 n fifty cent
piece.
Imagine n man who, having taken n
big dose of opium with the avowed pur-
pose of having his carcass housed in
Evergreen cemetery as early as possible,
so hat his bones may be ready for speedy
shipment to China, having n doctor with
big round eye glasses sit Town 10 feel the
poor fellows pulse for two hours and n
half, and then give him the following
prescription to be boiled into a soup and
then drunk:
Picked liznrds two pairs, ( males and I females;
Cprca ginseng root, u an ounce, willow cricket
skins, half n dozen, 3 males and Q females; sweet
potato vines, 1 ounce; white nuts, / ounce; Iotos
leaves, gan ounce. rattlcsnake tail, II OF an
ounce; blnck dates, 2 ounces; elm bark, u an
ounce; devil fish toes, 4 an ounce; RENDERS
- a. - -..... .Ia-u-H - -
dried ginger, u Of an ounce; coffin nails Gold
ones), y nm ounce. Boil the whole with 2 quarts
Of whter until only half OF the water is left, and
then drink II as n preliminary dose
Such was the prescription given on
last Friday afternoon to n poor laundry
man on the corner of Broome and De
lancy streets by n Chinese doctor, who
said his office was Mt 1s Mott street. But,
fortunately for the patient, before the
famous prescription was put up by n
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 mes
scnger got back.
Here is another prescription given to
Wong All Sing, of o Mott street, some
time ago, for n cancer, which the doctor
and his colleagues had been trying to
cure for the past -four years. But they
didn't cure it. At last the poor fellow
was nearly dead, and the doctors Mt the
Now York hospital got hold of the pa
tent and cured him in less than three
weeks.
This is the prescription for the cure of
cancer, translated from the original:
Raw earth, 3 ounces; winter wheat, 3 ounces,
ginseng pills, 8; sprig Of cinnamon, III ounces;
southern apricot seeds / ounce; willow leaves, ~
ounce; nniseseed oil, / ounce; red dogs tail, /
ounce; peach skin, l ounce; clam shell, Q ounces;
sandal wood, 8 ounces; dandelion, dried, ! ounce.
Mix and boil with water; take 1t seven times a
day. DR. Ono Pho.
of the dozen or more sick Cinnamon
who have recently been drugged nearly
TO death by such wonderful compounds
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 ineficiency is the principal cause
of their recent downfall.-Wong Chin
Foo in New York World.