St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-03
:, CHINESE PRESCRIPTIONS.
Some of the Horrible Doses the
Doctors Mix for Their Patients

Some of the Horrible Doses the
Doctors Mix for Their Patients.
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 medical genius. 1t has been
the custom ever since the Chinese col
iOny began to put on airs" in New
York for sick Cinnamon from all parts
iof the country this side of the Rocky
mountains 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 doors of their domicileS.
Besides this, they give bigger pre-
iscEiptiOn and heavier doses that their
lAmerican competitors. These Chinese
iphysicians will devote from two to six
ihears to feeling your pulse, and all for
1.-THE munificent sum of from a GU arter to
la So cent piece.
| Imagine a man who, having taken
big dose of opium. with the avowed
purpose of having his carcass housed
i'm, Evergreen cemetery as early as posi-
Ible, so that his bones may be ready for
Ispeedy shipment to China, having
doctor with his round eyeglasses sit
down and feel the poor fellows pulse
for two hours and half and then give
him the following prescription, to he
Iboiled into soup and then drank -;
"HPickledr lizards, four pairs, four
made and four femal e; Corea ginseng
root, half an ounce; willow cricket
skins. half dozen, three. males land
three females ;;sweet potato vines, one
ounce; white ants, one ounce; lotus
leaves, half an ounce; rattlesnake tail,
quarter of an ounce; black dates, two
ounces; elm bark, half an ounce; devil
fish tones, 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 drink it as a preliminary
OSe."
Such was the prescription given last
Friday afternoon to a poor laundryman
on the corner of BrOOme and Delaney
streets by Chinese doctor who said his
Office was at 1S Mott street. But, for
tunately for the patient, before the ia
nous prescription was put up by
Chinese druggist Oh 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 S Mott street, some
time ago for cancer, which the doctor
cure for the past four years. But they
didn't cure it. AT last the poor fellow
was nearly dead and the doctors at the
New York hospital got hold of the pa
tient and cured him in less than three
weeks.
This is the prescription for the cure
of cancer translated from the original:
RAW earth, 8 ounces; winter wheat, 3
ounces; ginseng pills. 3; sprig of CHINA
mon, " ounces; aniseseed oil, ounce;
red dogs tail, ounce; peach skin. l
ounce; clam shell, 2 ounces; sandal
wood, ounces; dandelion. dried, l
ounce. Mix and boil with water; take
- .'DR. CHo PING"
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
physician. These examples of their
own doctors inefficiency is the princi-
pal cause of their recent downfall.
Wong Chin Foo IN the New York World.
The indianapolis, Ind, News. thinks
it will he difficult to put the Minnesota
drunkenness law in operation because,
it says, who can tell when man is
drunk or when he is sober. It may be
somewhat difficult to note the diStinc-
tion among the nervous and fre-eating
population of Indiana, but up here
where intelligence, industry and mod
Grafton in all things is the rule. there is
quite distinction between drunk and
sober man.-MankatO Register.