The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
GETTING RID OF DEVILS.
A Chinese Doctors Drastic Treatment
Was Successful, But He Killed the
Patient.
From the Denver Republican.

Patient.
From The Denver Republican.
The circumstances surrounding the
death of Yee Son Chung, which occurred
in Sam KEGS laundrys 1906 Blake street,
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 stab wounds were
found on it. They appeared to have been
made by some tine-pointed instrument,
presumably a chop stick. The body at
present lies in the coroner's office, and to-
day the coroner will decide whether to
hold an inquest. zee Son Chung com
planned of pain in his stomach. No one
paid much attention to him and no physi-
clan was sent for. Saturday Sam Kee
called in DIR, Yee Yeng Wah, q celestial
disciple of Esculapius, who has his office
on Wa2ee street, rear of Seventeenth
DR.. Wah examined his sick countryman's
pulse, looked carefully at hts tongue and
at the soles of his feet as is the custom
among Chinese physicians, inquired if
Chung had any money, and on getting u
negative answer shook his head gravelN
and left. About 6 O'Clock DR.. Wah was
was again Induced to visit the dying
Chung. This time he diagnosed the case
without making very extended examina-
ton. Sam Kee, in pigeon English, said
that the second time the doctor called he
looked into his patients face, and turning
to those In the laundry, said "Hc no
good; he sure enough dier Having re
lieve himself of this opinion, DR.. Wah
went away. The Cinnamon got frightened
and sent for Dom Klio, who is u layman,
but considered good medical authority,
Don came and examined Yee Son Chung,
and then treated him for some disease
which does not appear to have any trans
latable name, and is known only to China
men.
One of Sam KEGS attendants explained,
| as best he could, the form of treatment.
He said that Dom KliO took a pointed
instrument, which he described as like o
| 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 atten-
dant, the amateur doctor pulled the mans
intestines through the hole and cut small
pieces out of them with knife or scissors.
He did this in five different places, and
left hole large enough to push a pencil
into each place. -Four of the holes were
made so as to mark out to perfect dia-
mond on the surface of the mans stomach.
| Some red matter was rubbed on the
wounded spot, and the operation was
| evidently intended as charm or hoodoo
for the MOngolian devils supposed to be
| lodged in zee Son Chungs stomach and
caused him the pain he suffered from.
Instead of growing better after Dom Klio
had hoodooed the evil spirits, Chung be-
gan to sink rapidly and died about an
hour after the holes had been punctured
in him A little before he died the thor
oughly alarmed Cinnamon sent for DIR. j.
L. Clark. When the physician arrived
the man was dead His body was then
taken to the corOner's Office, 1t is possible
that the wounds made in Chung's abdo-
men 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 inter
nal hemorrhage. Dom Klio said that
Cinnamon always punch holes in sick
mans abdomen for a certain disease that
he said was not Mclean" His clearest
attempt to describe the disease was that
"small things come on mans stomach and
make heap sick" He admitted that he
made the wounds in Chung's abdomen
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 cousin of zee Son Chung and
keeps a store on Wazee street. He thought
the treatment meted out to his relative
by Dom KliO was all right and did not
appear much concerned about Chuug's
death He explained that Cinnamon al
ways punctured the stomachs 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.