Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-08-26
HAp sroMAcH DEVILS.
Chinese Hoodoo Bored Holes 60 Let
Them out, But chung Died.

Chinese IIoodOo bored Holes to Let
Them out, But chuag Died.
The circumstances surrounding the
death OF Ye Son Chung, whlsh oc-
Cured In Sam KEGS laundry, l706
Blake street, lately, will DO in
yestigated, says the Denver Repnbli-
can. Chung had been i'll only two
days before his death took place and
he had no regular medical attendant
When his body was stripped
five stab wounds were found on
it, they appeared to have been
made by some line pointed instru-
ment presumably a ehop-stick.
Yee Son Chung complained OF pain
in his stomach. No one paid much
attention TO him and no physician
was sent for saturday sam kce
called in Dr. zee Yong Wah, a
Celestial disciple 81 Esculapius. who
has his ollce on Nazce street, rear
OF Seventeenth Dr Mah examined
his sick coantryman's pulse, looked
carefully AZ his tongue and al tho
s9le5 81 his feet. AS Is the custom
among Chinese physicians, inquired
II Chung had amy money and on
getting negative answer shook his
head graveiY and LEFT.
About 6 o'clock DR.. WAh was again
Induced 10 visit the dying Chung.
This time no diagnosed the case
without making q very extended ex-
animation. sam kre, ia pigeon
English. said that the second timS
tho doctor called he looked into his
patients face, aud, turning 20 those
in tho laundry. sald "lle no good; ho
sure enough die. Having relieved
himself of thls opinion. DR.. Wah
went away
The Chinamau got frightened and
sent for Dom Klio, who u a laymAn.
I but considered good medical author
I ity. Dom camo and examined iee
Son Chung. and then treated him for
some disease which does not appear
10 have any traaslAtable name. and
/ Is known uaiy - CbiaamUu
4 One ~ sam KEGS attendants CX-
ulaiaed. as best hs could the form ~
treatment 10 said that Dom hilo
took 4 pointed instrument. which hs
+ described ~ l,kc big needle. and
puuctGfca ays holes ia the sick
man abdomen Gne lnclsso1 ho
made 30 thv base ot the breast bone.
+ As neAs a. could be learned from tho
attendants TIE amateur doctor pulled
gaa mans iu,erI.ur- through tho
hJ,e and euf s,aa.l pieces ont ~ them
with Eulig W scissors. He lid this
nj hfa different places. ana lols q
hole large enough Co push . poncil
into cacA place Fear 10 the holes
we're made tu as 80 mAFG uut u nar-
feet diamond ~ thr surface ~ the
mun stomach >pun rod matter
uas Rubbed eu tau wounded spot. and
the operation was evidently intended
rs u charm rr u1Udou Tor tho Mon
sulia1 devils that uers supposed 20
be- u9srd ri 50 son ,huuga s;0m.
aeh and causing blm thr pain 30
suffered irum
Instead u growing hettcr after
Dom kliO had hlDduUoI tho OWL
spirits Chung bogen 10 sink rapidly
and died about an hour after tho
holes had s. puucturod IL him.
\ little before bc died tho thorough
81 alarmed Cinnamon sent Tor DR..
). T. Glars. Whom the physician ar.
rived the man was dead. Ills body
was then tabcu 70 tho coroncr's
ollicr. IL r. possible that tho wounds
made IN Chuug's abdomen may havo
caused prritnuitis aud brought about
the mans death. or an artery might
have been pierced with tho bodsin
and caused the man to die u Internal
EcmDrrhagc.
Dom klio said that Cinnamon al
ways punch holes In a sick mans abb
domcn for certain disease that no
said was not "NleIican His clear.
est attempt 90 describe tho disease
was that small things come on
mans stomach aud mako heap sick. "
He admitted that hc made tho wounds
in thung's abdomen When asked
why Chung did not get we'll. Dom
! laughed aud said:
He not sick that way; he got an
other sick
Quong Hing Sing Is cousin Of Va
Son Chung and keops store on
Waco street He thought the treat
ment mctcd out TO his relative by
Dom klio was all right and did not
. appear much concerned about Chung's
death. lie explained that Cinnamon
always puuctured thc stumnchs Of
those who are III in the way Dom
klio did. and that Il vas a very good
cure for tho mysterious disease. a
number Of other Chinese said tho
same thing, but none Of Thorn could
define the disease for which this no.
, roic remedy was used.
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