Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-23

broken limbs; not long ago a specialist in
this department, Leon Jack, arrived from
San Francisco and opened an Office in New
York. When mans arm is broken the
bones will be united, washes and salves will
be literally applied, then bandages and
over all the dried, stiff bark of tree with
the concave side fitting to the arm, bound
tight; in such case nature generally assists
in the cure and the arm will be sound and
strong in a few weeks. For an anethetic
have read of the Chinese physician using
paste made from -four and vascid fluid
exuded from a live frog; this has the effect
of deadening pain in finger, for instance,
that has to be cut, and has been known in
China for many hundred years. But it is
very rarely indeed that Chinese doctor
uses the knife. They consider themselves
very expert in setting broken limbs.
A PECULIAR CHALLENGE.
A Chinese doctor in St. Louis was scoffed
at by an American surgeon and the China
man challenged him to q contest. 81 want
you," said the Mongolian. "to break my
leg and leave me to cure myself. will
guarantee to be on my feet walking around
town in four weeks" The American sur.
geon accepted this proposition, but backed
out when the Chinaman added: "And
after get well must break your leg and
see if you can cure yourself as quick"
The superstitions among the Chinese
people themselves in regard to the treatment
of disease are too numerous to mention.
Continued sickness in a family is attributed
to the evil influence of "the destroying god"
whom they try to propitiate; various deadly
influences proceeding from the evil spirits
are brought to be expelled by various re-
ligious performances; disease is sometimes
of hn tad tn "a nj cy0d tn
enmity of the spirit of deceased person,
and in the latter case the priests are invited
to repeat the formula for dissolving or un-
tying grudges; they engage in idol pro-
cessions as token of gratitude for the re-
covery of their parents from sickness, or in
order to secure their longevity; some people
wear the cangue-one board tightly fitted
about the neck and another with holes for
the wrists, others wear handouts, and
others simply carry stick of lighted in
cense, facing the idol in the procession
and occasionally kneeling down in the
streets.
Sometime since the Chinese Evangelist,
Chinese periodical of New York, advo-
Gated the erection of home or hospital for
sick Cinnamon in New York. On account
of the dread that the Chinese have of mu-
tilation of the body after death they do not
avail themselves OF the city hospitals, ex-
cept as last resort. Many hesitate so long
that they surely 60 there to die. It is con-
sidered very unlucky for Chinaman to die
in a laundry, so the friendless Mongolian
has no place to go except the hospital of
which he stands in such fear.
SOME sUPERsTITIoNs.
The Chinese believe that the spirit of the
departed hovers about the body until
buried, and will be displeased if the body
is injured in any way. 1t is related that a
great Chinese chieftain was making his es-
cape from q besieged fortress with his wife
when a bullet wounded the lady. She
could go no further and dropped into a well
to escape notice. The chieftain overturned
a stone wall upon the we'll, filling it and
killing the woman. He preferred to kill
her and have her body hidden than to run
the chance of her body falling into the ene-
mics hands to be mutilated. Some Chinese
think that American doctors like to get
their bod es to make medicine Of; they
think the doctors cut Cinnamon up, slice off
the fatty parts. fry them up and dry out the
oil.
The Chinese in this country are very kind
to one another in case of sickness and dis
tress. If Chinaman is poor he can drop
into the first laundry and get assistance in
return for what work he is able to do; if he
is sick it is all the same; he will do what he
can and his needs will be supplied from the
common fund. j. c. THoMs.