Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1889-06-22
CHINESE PRESCRIPTIONS.
S0sAe OF tho Horrible Doses the Doctors
MIX For Their Patients.

MIX For Their Patients.
Ihe 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. Ithas been
the custom ever since the Chinese
colony began to '.put on air4'' in New
York for sick Cinnamon from all parts
OF the country this side of the Rocky
Mountains to come to Gotham to con-
suit 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. Beside 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 a man who. having taken a
big dose OF opium with the avowed
purpose OF having his carcass housed
IN Evergreen cemetery as early as
possible. so that his bones may be
ready for speedy shipment to China,
having doctor with big round eye-
glasses sit down to feel the poor fol-
lows pulse for two hours and a half
and then give him the following pre-
scription to be boiled into soup and
then drank
Piclsied lizards, two pairs, male and fe-
male; Corea ginseng root, n ounce; willow
cricket skins, half dozen, males and fe.
males; sweet potato vines, ounce; white
huts, ounce; iotos leaves, 4 au ounce; rattle
snake tail, 4 of an ounce; black dates, .
ounces; elm bark, J. an ounce; devil fish toes,
n an ounce; reindeers horn, n an ounce;
birds claws, u OF an ounce; dried ginger, y OF
an ounce: coffin nails (old ones). u an ounce.
Boil the whole with quarts of water until one
half of the water is left, and then drink it as
preliminary dose.
Such was the prescription given to
a poor laundryman on the corner of
Broome and Delancey streets by a
Chinese doctor, who said his office was
at lS Mott street. But, fortunately
for the patient, before the famous
prescription was put up by Chinese
druggist on Mott street, his friend All
Sin rushed to an American doctor near
Chinatown. The latter went to the
dying man and restored him to con-
sciousness before the deadly messenger
got back.
A;>sSera Is aac.S.nr- sars.scription Given
TO wong Ah Sing, of > Mott street,
some time ago. for 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 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 original:
Raw earth, ounces; winter wheat ) ounces:
ginseng pills, 3; sprig OF cinnamon, ~ ounces:
southern apricot seeds, ounce; willow leaves
u ounce: anise seed oil, ounce; red dogs tail,
ounce; peach skin, ounce; clam she'll ,
ounces; sandal wood, 5 ounces; dandelion,
dried, ounce. Mix and boil with water: take
1t seven times day. DIR. Cuo 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 been given up rs hopeless by
their own physicians. These examples
of their own doctors inefficiency is the
principal cause of their recent down
falL-Wong Chin Foo, in N. Y. World