Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
. MEDICAL MARVELS OF THE CHINESE
Barber. Doctor and Dentist Form q
 Deadly Triumyirat

It is the custom for a Chinaman to visit his barber every week to have I general oyerhauling First. the head and face are shaved; second. the ears are scraped and cIeansed with a small brush made of ducks hair; third. the lower and upper eyelids are scraped with dulI-edged knife. all granuations being smoothed away. and then an application i> male with ducks hair of salt solution.
 This i> the reason why you will find >o much blindness in China They take ne anti>cptic measures whatever. All in- strument> are held in the operators mouth during the process of the opera ton.
 Finally the patinent'> back t> maSsa-sd. and after paying fee of , cents anl no tip he leaves the shop feeling clean out side. but now must consult his regular physician.
 After going through the usual exami- nation. which is form of military in- sp"ction, the doctor diagnosis the case and treats it, unless a devil haPpen> l." Jump town tue patient luIbIt. II ltitn has happened the doctor can do the pat tent no good until he promises to set off lGo firecrackers and to make daily visit ] to the joss house This done. he receives the usual pil> for those vacated by the devil.
 These pills may consist of spotted rhinoceroS horns said to be q wonderful cure for intestinal troubles. The spotted rhinoceroS horns come from southern i China and in the market at singapore single specimen will bring S2'.
 Tiger bones. when ground [" powder and mixed with Chinese wine. make great blood tonic. which is used by all classes of Chinese in northern China
 The recipe is held by a firm in Shanghai that has become very wealt>v from the sale of this tonic.
 Old deer horns are boiled down to ma ke the medicinal glue which binds the fifty ingredients composing the average Chinese pills AS in these you may get anything from pinch of gun powder to powdered cobra tail dust. it is not the fault or 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 lirer and blood. As may be ina giued. tiger eyball. the genuine article. can be prescribed for only the exceedingly wealthy Chinese. Similarly the liver, whetl dried and reduced to powder. l> worth it's weight in gold all over China. Tiger blood when evaporated to solid at temperature of no degrees and taken as a powder, is believed by Asiatics to transform craven into hero.
 After the patient has made the rounds of the barber and the travelling physician, he now looks up his dentist, whom he will on any street corner in all the large Chi nese cities. You are greatly impressed by the seriousness of this gentleman. who is always reading and thinking of his col lection of some two thousand teeth on a table and few bottles of some secret drugs, which upon inquiries Chinese in 1 terpreter told d visitor contained tue i moisture of the inner side of an old coffin l which was collected after being buried | some ten years. 4 dentist in China Is ca He'd "boxert by all Chinese, for he is supposed to have great strength ln bis arms and hands and also great magic oower