The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-04
A JAPANESE PHYSICIAN.

met with. He learned the language at
home from English teachers and only for a
| popularity in accent would be master of
| the language in its purity. He is on five
years vacation and intends to travel con-
| stantly the balance of his time. He told a
| singular story in connection with the
| discovery of DR.. Brown-Sequard's elixer
and seemed TO regard the whole
matter as huge joke on the
American people. 1t seems that when the
French a few years back were fighting the
black flags of the Province of Tonquin, an
| old torn manuscript was stolen from a
chemists laboratory, and this the French
tried to decipher. They made an amusing
mistake in translating what is vegetable
growth in China into the word lamb
Then with the balance of the meagre
knowledge the manuscript contained they
sprung the elixer of life on credulous
public. He then spoke of all kinds of life
insisting that the principle of self preser-
vtation ran through the whole kingdom of
life. There are enemies on all sides and
/ there is a constant conflict between the
principle of life and its enemies,
and it is this conflict that makes the
principle of life active. In this
same vein of reasoning he said that the
moment food was put in the stomach a
conflict at once commenced. The poison
Gus elements were expelled and the nutri-
ton was absorbed as long as life lasted.
If a perfect system of dieting could be dis
covered the race would simply degenerate,
but such discovery was not in the nature
of things.
The following is given verbatim as near
ly as possible and is the gist of his CONVEX
sation:
Your people understand not Japan. 1t
is very old; it is not ignorant. Even our
little town has school of medicine that
was already old when books began to be
printed with type in Europe. In this
school the chair of therapeutics has been
filled by my father, who succeeded his
father, who succeeded his father, and so
back to the time when it was founded by
DR.. - -, who came there from China
and whose name my brother bears. In
our family it has always been the custom
to name the oldest son -. His career is
already marked out for him when he is
born. He must succeed his father in the
chair of therapeutics. All his energies are
bent in that direction. But when | was
born difficulty arose. My brother and l
are twins and the first children. Which
should succeed to our fathers name and
practice? At the earnest solicitation our
mother we were both given a
medical education and both were
told the secret of the family's
success, a chemical formula learned
by our ancestor in China and bequeathed
from father to son as a precious legacy.
The document has been willed to my
brother, but we share the knowledge of
its contents
Oh, no, i can not tell you this secret,
because you would not comprehend it, but
the nature Of it, yes. 1t concerns magnet
ism. In this age of electricity everybody
knows that all matter is electrified; that
diverse kinds of matter are differently
electrified; that different kinds of matter
are differently affected by the same kind
of electricity; that if the amount of cleo
tricity in body be increased the vitality
is increased and that it appears to be
made more alive, and that if the amount
of electricity be decreased there seems to
less life. What is this spark
of life we have so often mentioned?
Is it the electrical spark? When it
goes out of a man, no matter how long
sick, it is as though cloud passed across
his face. Now if the body as whole is
electrified. may not the various tissue
that goes to make it up be variously cleo
trified, both in kind and amount? May
they not be variously electro-sensitive and
electro-active? The epiblast this, the hipo-
blast that; the endothelium one, the |
epithelium another? Your physician adj |
ministers one medicine for its effect upon |
the eye to dilate it; another for its effect |
upon the same organ to contract it. He |
administers one Medicine to quicken the
hearts action, another to retard and |
strengthen it. And still others he admin
listers for their various local or specific |
effects.
Well with a knowledge of all these |
things an instrument the pathoscope was
made partaking largely of the nature of a
galvanometer.
You might mistake this for walking |
stick, but look more closely. Observe the |
dial where you thought was the head. |
Upon this dial you can see this index point /
ing at Helps. You must have good eyes to |
read the letters after II. This shows me |
that it is the hepatic secretions that are |
affected in your case. Possibly you |
thought yourself in perfect health. !
So you are nearly. for the index is |
only partially DETECTED. The amount of !
the detection is in direct ratio to the in |
tensity of the pathological condition of the |
holder
This, then, serves as a pathoscope or dis |
ease finder, and as a walking stick. 1t is /
made of specially prepared glass tube, |
encased in wood throughout nearly its full /
length At the top where | grasp 10 there I
is no wood. The tube is filled with ozOn- /
lied mot Rrated. but ozonized) alcohol /
which has been specially treated otherwise /
also. But the index is the chief secret. |
II is a vegetable growth. The plant /
if well known, especially inJapan, but the |
particular part and its uses are TO the |
world not known. The secret of its prep |
aration also is hidden. You wonder what |
electricity has to do with this: will show
you. Every person has a certain amount |
Of magnetism. When your hand grasps /
the pathoscope the whole appliance is /
electrified; stand it beside this vacant /
chair, now see the index fall. 1t will 20 to /
the bottom like a thing dead If you but /
allow it time.
BY accident the interview was late at 1
night and when the doctor had finished /
speaking IL was nearing daylight. He ex-
planned that be had acquired the habit of 4
retiring at 5oclcck a. m. the night being /
critical time with patients and the best /
for study, Going 10 the window be opened +
the shutter and looked out Absent mind /
edly he quoted or framed a neat sentence /
about the day presuming to kiss the clouds /
aud the chaste Diana, surprised /
and shocked gathering her snnn-I