The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24
CHUNG HAD STOMACH DEVILS.
The Chinese Hoodoo Doctor Bored Holes
to Let Them Out, But Chung Died.

The Chinese Hoodoo Doctor Bored Holes
to Let Them Out, But Chung Died.
Denver Republican,
The circumstances surrounding the
death of zee Son Chung which occurred
in Sam KEGS laundry, 1706 Blake-st.. on
Saturday evening. will be investigated.
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 yesterday five stSb wounds were
found on it. They appeared to have been
made by some fine pointed instrument,
presumably a chop stick. The body at
present lies in the coroner's Office, and
today the coroner will decide whether TO
hold an inquest
zee Son Chung complained of pain in
his stomach. No one paid much atten-
ton 10 him and no physician was sent
for. Saturday Sam Kee called in DIR. Y go
Yeng Wah, celestial disciple of Escula-
plus, who has his office on Wazee-st., rear
of Seventeenth. Dr.. Wah examined his
sick countryman's pulse, looked carefully
at his tongue and at the soles of his feet,
as is the custom among Chinese physi-
clans. inquired if Chung had any money,
and on getting negative answer shook
his head grayely and left.
A bout o'clock DIR. Wah was again in
duced to visit the diving Chung. This time
he diagnosed the case without making q
very extended. Determination. Sam Kee. in
pigeon English, said that the second time
the doctor called he looked into his pa
TENTS face, and turning to those in the
laundry, said: HE no good he sure
enough die" Having relieved himself of
this opinion DR.. Wah went away.
The Cinnamon got frightened ard sent
for Dom Klio, who is a layman. but con-
sidered good medical authority. Dom
came and examined zee Son Chung and
then treated him for some disease which
does not appear to have any translate BILE
name, and is known only to Cinnamon.
One of Sam KEGS attendants exp ained,
as best he could. the form of treatment
He said that Dom Klio took pointed in
strument, which be described as like q
big needle, and punctured five holes in the
sick mans abdomen. One incision he
made at the base of the breast bone. As
near as could be learned from the attend
ant the amateur doctor pulled the mans
intestines through the hole and cut small
pieces out of them with a knife or scis-
sors He did this in five different places,
and left hole large enough to push PEN
Gil into each place Four of the holes
were made so as to mark out perfect
diamond on the surface of the man g
stomach. Some red matter was rubbed
on the wounded spot, and the operation
was evidently intended as a charm or hoo-
doc for the Mongolian devils that were
supposed to be lodged in zee Son Chung's
stomach and causing him the pain be
suffered from.
Instead of growing better after Dom
Klio had hoodoosd the evil spirits. Chung
began to sink rapidly and died in about
an hour after the holes had been pune
tured in him. A little before he died the
thoroughly alarmed Cinnamon sent for
Dr. J. l.. Clark. When the physician ar
rived the man was dead. His body was
then taken TO the coroner's office. Ii is
possible that the wounds made in Chung's
abdomen may have caused peritonitis and
brought about the mans death, or an
artery might have been pierced with the
bodkin and caused the man to die of in
ternal hemorrhage.
Dom Klio said that Cinnamon always
punch holes in a sick mans abdomen for
certain disease that he said was not
"Melican." His clearest attempt to de-
scribe the disease was that small things
come on q mans stomach and make heap
sick" He admitted that he made the
wounds in Chung's stomach. When
asked why Chung did not get well. Dom
laughed and said, HE not sick that way
he got another sick"
Quong Hing Sing is a cousin of zee Son
Chung and keeps store on Wazee-st He
thought the treatment melted out 20 his
relative by Dom Klio was all right, and
did not appear much concerned about
Chung's death. He explained that China
men always punctured tho stomRchs of
those who were i'll in the way Dom Klio
did, and that it was very good cure for
the mysterious disease. A number OF
other Chinese said the same thing, but
none of them could define the disease
for which this heroic remedy was used.