Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
CHINESE MEDICAL WONDERS
BARBER, DOCTOR AND DENTIST
FORM A TRIUMvIRATE.
Tonsorial Artist Gives the Chinamau
a General Overhauling
Each Week.

From the Medical Record.
1t is the custom for a Chinaman to
visit his barber every week to have a
general overhauling. First, the head and
face are shaved: second, the ears are
scraped and cleansed with a small brush
made of ducks hair; third. the upper
and lower eyelids are scraped with a
dull-edged knife, all granulations being
smoothed away. and then an application
is made with a ducks hair brush of salt
solution.
This is the reason why you will find
so much blindness in China. They take
no antiSeptic measures whatever. All in
struments are held in the operator s
mouth during the process of operation.
Finally the patients back is massaged.
and after paying fee of } cents and
no tip he leaves the shop feeling clean
outside, but now must consult his regular
physician.
After going through the usual exami-
nation. which is form of military In
spection. the doctor diagnoses the case
and treats it unless devil happens to
lump down the patients throat. If this
has happened the doctor can do Fhe pa
tient no good until he promises to set
off 100 firecrackers and to make daily
visit to the josshouse. This done he
receives the usual pills for those vacated
by the devil.
Rhinoceros Horn.
These pills may consist of spotted
rhinoceros horn, said to be wonderful
cure for intestinal troubles. The spotted
rhinoceros horns come from southern
China. and in the market at Singapore a
single specimen will bring S25
Tiger bones. when ground to a powder
and mixed with Chinese wine, make a
great blood tonic. which is used by all
classes of Cinnamon in northern China.
The recipe is held by firm in Shanghai
that has become very wealthy by the
sale of this tonic.
Old deer horns are boiled down Ito
make the medicinal glue which binds the
fifty ingredients composing the average
Chinese pills AS in these you NAV get
powdered cobra tail dust, it is not the
fault of Wong-Yik- Chez if just the right
kind of specific escapes the patient.
Tiger Remedies.
EQUAL in medicinal efficacy to the
above are three high-grade tiger RENE
dies, the eyeball liver and blood. AS
NAV be imagined, tiger eyeball. the genu-
inc Article can be prescribed for only
the Exceedingly wealthy Chinese. SINH
larry, the liver when dried and reduced
TO IL powder is worm us weight IN gOld
over all China. Tiger blood when evap-
grated to a solid at temperature of ITO
degrees and taken as a powder is be-
lieved by Asiatics to transform a craven
into hero.
After the patient has made the rounds
of the barber and travelling physician
he now looks up his dentist. whom he
will find on any street corner in all
large Chinese cities. You are greatly
impressed by the seriousness of this
gentleman. who is always reading and
thinking of his collection of some 1000
teeth on table and a few bottles of
some secret drugs which. upon inquiries,
a Chinese interpreter told visitor con-
tanned the moisture of the inner side OF
an old coffin which was collected after
being buried some ten years. A dentist
In China is called a boxer" by all Chi
namen, for he is supposed to have great
strength in his arms and hands. and
also some great magic power.