Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-23
MEDICAL MARvELs IN CHINA.
Barber, Doctor and Dentist Form a
Deadly TriumVirate.


1t is the custom for a Chinaman to
visit MS Darper 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 EXAMINATIONS being
smoothed away, and then an application
is made with Il ducks hair brush Of salt
solution.
This is the reason, says a writer in The
Medical Record, why you vii! find so
much blindness i'll China. They take no
antiseptic measures whatever. All in
struments are held in the operators
mouth during the process of operation
Finally the patients back is massaged.
and after paying a fee of cents and
no tip he leaves the shop, feeling clean
outside, but now must consult his regu-
lar physician.
After going through the usual examina.
ton, which is a form of military inspec-
ton, the doctor diagnoses the case aad
treats it unless devil happens to Jump
down the patients throat. If this has
happened the doctor can do the patient
no good until he promises to set off 100
frecrackers and to make a daily visit
to the joss house. This done he re-
ceiyes the usual pills for those vacated
by the devil.
These pills may consist of spotted
rhinOceros horn, said to be wonderful
cure for intestinal troubles. The spotted
rhnoceros horns come from southern
China, and in the mar ket at Singapore
a single specimen will bring $50.
Tiger bones when ground to a powder
and mixed with Chinese wine make 81
great blood tonic which is used by all
classes of Cinnamon in northern China
The recipe is held by a firm in Shanghai
that has become very wealthy by the
sale of this tonic.
Old deer horns are boiled down to
make the medicinal glue which binds the
fifty ingredients composing the average
Chinese pills. As in these you may get
anything from a pinch of gunpowder to
powdered cobra tail dust, it is not the
fault of Wong Yik-Chee if just the right
kind of specific escapes the patient
Equal in medicinal efficacy to the above
are three high grade tiger remedies, the
eyeball, liver and blood. As may be
imagined tiger eyeball, the genuine ar
ticle. can be prescribed for only the eX-
ceedingly wealthy Chinese. Similarly the
liver when dried and reduced to pow
der is worth its weight in gold all over
China. Tiger blood when evapOrated to
a solid at a temperature of 10 degrees
and taken as powder is believed by
Asiatics to transform a craven into a
hero.
After the patient has made the
rounds of the barber and travelling ply
stefan he now looks up his dentist, whom
he will find on any street corner in all
large Chinese cities. You are greatly inn
pressed by the seriousness of this gentle
man, who is always reading and thinking
of his collection of some 2000 teeth ON
a table and a few bottles of some secret
drugs which upon inquiries a Chinese
interpreter told a visitor contained the
moisture of the inner side of an old cof-
fin which was collected after being
buried some ten years. A dentist in
China is called "boxer" by all China
men, for he is supposed to have great
strength in his arms and hands, and
also some great magic power.