The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-02

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fisnd Ilft1e e me- the
lEoii0Wi6 5talogue liea IJ5
l5yeEle6fl Set eed glline Doctor
ana m old woman.
jid gVsriaEls 81 tlii1s MAY has
bad a lump coming ii iieF fliroqt Tor
rout months. ana II has now esoSln u
t6at she can swallow only with
dffiienlty. we IRE distrs ed. BY Hndi
/ by she VIII not BE al5lc to sysallons
Chen she must die. DO tell me &c ms
iaslghter -Ili-la1s can he cured
Doetor-49es. she can be cured very
easily. AHA. the medicine yOu have 70
use IS not cosby. but ratner dihicult TO
obtain
Old Wonlan-oh, do please tell me.
! what 1t is. However difHcuIt, win do
my lest to get It. Do. please. doctor
tell me what It Il.
I L
.oys. This can be done by washing the
month II ! COW. Then you take these
IIobbers and boil them down, after
which you must stir in little rice
aour With a leather from the tail OF q
luck. Then take the paste and roll Il
INTO pills. When all these pills are tax
IA the lump in your daugater-in'-la laws
throat viii Immediately disappear.
Old Woman-Oh, doctor, thank you.
How can I thank you enough for Civ
ne me OF your wisdom?
/ Doctor-I assure you, madam, it Is
lothing ut al. Please, 1 beg you, do
1ot thank me.
Old Woman Oh, doctor. shall never
.orget you for your Kindness to me.
10 not deserve 1t. I do not deserve It.
Is It any wonder that sickness pre-
saIls among an classes OF the Chinese,
md that the living OF their race Is only
survival OF the fttest,r or, rather.
he upft2
The remedies given by Chinese doc
mrs are seldom other than ridiculous
md are often worse than the COM
plant Many of the most common pre-
scriptions consist of powdered spiders,
.oasted snukeskins. fossils, rhinoeeros
lorl shayfngs, asbestus, moths, stewed
goose GuilIs, etc. 1t is declared that the
more disgusting the medicine the more
ehicacious it is, which assertion, if 1t
) true, would mean that China Is full
II NIethuselahs.
Much superstition exists In regard to
1early every complaint Foreign ply
icians in China are often approached
oy natives who, upon being asked what
he matter is, reply in low voice.
I've got that When pressed as to
1nablc TO answer otherwise than sI.ve
GOT that" In such cases It IS usually
discovered that the patient has mala-
.ia. and the unwillingness to name the
usease is d1e to a BELIEF that malaria
3 caused by an Inward devil and the
:hills are due to his Satanic majesty g
Natural gymnastic procllvitfes.
During the night in the cities moth
PRS are frequently met who. while
wandering slowly up and down the
streets, cry out mournfuIly: Come
back! Come back" In the rear. Mt
little distance, follows child, who ans
Swers: I'm coming! I'm coming"
These wanderIngs and cries are some
lines continued for hours and are ex-
planned by the fact that at the moth
.r's home there Hes sick child in an
unconscious. or cOmatOse condition, and
The mother. IN tile belief that its spirit
aas fed, lis searching the streets for it.
Tile child following represents the de
parted Shirt, whose return Is supposed
10 he lIastened -Isv the cry. I'm COM
mgr III the absence OF child to fol-
low. the mother often waves y chtld's
Jacket In her hand while IN u monot-
onous voice she croons beseechingly
10 the spirit to return.
Smallpox is a disease from which
few, II any, escape in China, and so
prevalent is 1t that 1t has its own
sUecial devil This devil can be ap-
oeased only by the patient always re-
rerrInE to his eruptiOns as heavenly
aowerx'' ana by wearing red cloth
tlsd around his head. In some prov
mces. however, considerable progress
has been made In the amelioratioH OF
IhiH disease by inoculatlon- THIS ~
lone in childhood by snufhnS mp the
nose the powdered scabs from DIS
saEed perSon's inflammation. Whe1ner
this was discovered by accident, py
some idea of medical science, by foI-
lowing. the theory that the chair OF q
lbs, ~ good for the bite" or by adher-
ing to the general BELIEF that the worse
The remedy The. quicker the recovery IS
IIfficult to determine.
The uIumner in which the Chinese
treat their physicians ls, to say the
least. most inconsIderate Should
speedy cure NOT result from the doc
Tors treatment the patient calls In an
other and, il no better, yet another.
and so on in rapid succession until. all
human aid failing. lie, if mirslculously
he hus SO far survived, goes to consult
his gods, after whose treatment he is
usually carried 70 the cemetery. Ihe
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