Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-04-27
THE HEATHEN cAlNEsE.


10 NAAAlAIAINA .@|4
The Chinese are full 81 aupurnfl.
lions, and many of them firmly bs
lieye that the foreigners make modi.
cines out Of human beings. The mas
sacre at Tien-Tsin in 1870. In which
twenty foreigners were killed. ana
among them a number Of French nuns.
was caused by the report that the sis
ters were killing children to Get their
hearts and eyes for medical purposes,
and the trouble in Corea last spring
was caused by the circulation Of the
stories that the missionaries were
grinding up children's bones -
make medicine. This report Va
started by the Chinese, ana
the latest attempt Of the kind
find to-day here at Shanghai It ap-
pears in tri-monthly illustrated mag
azine which the Chinese publish ana
which sells for five cents copy. This
contains full description Of how the
foreigners make their medicine, with
ghastly illustrations Of the severed
trunks and the cut-up limbs Of human
beings In one cut men 10 American
clothes are bending over great furnaces
in which the heads and legs Of men
are boiling, and beside which
great baskets and tubs Of cut-up
humans lie. The men are stirring the
steaming mass and the picture makes
one think OF the witches caldron in
macbeth In another cut is shown
the machinery for the bringing up Of
the bones aud flesh. A dozen old skel-
etons lio upon the floor, and man
with shovel puts the ghastlY mass
upon the scales for weighing. In an-
other room the medicine is packed up
to be sent away, and young ladies in
American dress with waterfalls and
French heels are busy at it. / asked
the manager Of the magazine whether
he believed in such stuff. and he re-
piled that he did not know and asked
II it was not really true.
The Chinese themselves do not be-
lieve in dissection, and there is no
body-snatching here. They believe
that the heart is the seat OF thought
that the soul exists in the liver, and
that the gall bladder is the seat Of
courage. For this reason the gall
bladders of tigers are eaten by soldiers
to inspire them with courage. The
Chinese doctor ranks no higher than
the ordinary skilled workman. He
gets from fifteen or twenty cents a
visit, and he often takes pa
tients on condition that he will
cure them within certain time or
no pay. He never sees his female
patients except behind screen, and
be does not pay second visit unless
invited. His pay is called golden
hanks" and the orthodox way Of
sending it to him is wrapped in red
PAPER. The dentists look upon pulled
eeth as trophies, and they go about
With necklaces of decayed teeth about
heir necks or with them strung upon
trings and tied to sticks. Toothache
8 supposed to come from worm in the
Doth, and there are set Of female
loctors who make a business of extract
ng these worms. When the nerve Is
exposed they take this out and call it
he worm, and when not they use
leight of hand by which they make
heir patients believe certain worms,
which they show them, came from
heir teeth. ] have heard persons tell
# Cinnamon who claimed to have had
en- worms taken from their mouths In
single day, and saw woman act
ally at work upon a patient in the
treet here. China is as full of super
tition as the West India islands. and
he people like to be humbugged quite
s we'll here as we do in America