The Washington herald., 1909-11-14
MEDICAL MARvELs IN CHINA.
Where Barber, Doctor, and Dentist
Form n Deadly Triumvirate.
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Where Barber, Doctor, ana DENTIST
Form n Deadly Triumvirate.
Prom the Medical Record.
It is the custom for a cinnamon to visit
his barber every week 10 have a general
overhauling First, the head and face
are shaved, the upper and lower eyellds
are scraped with dull edged knife. all
granulations being smoothed away. and
then an application is made with ducks
hair brush Of salt solution.
This IS the reason why you win find
so much blindness IN China. They take
no anuseptio measures whatever AL In
struments are held in the operators
mouth during the process OF operation.
Finally the patients back Is massaged,
and after paying Zee Of three cents
and no tip he leaves the shop feeling
clean outside but must consult his reg
ular physician.
After going through the usual exami-
nation which is n form Of military in
spection, the doctor diagnoses the case
and treats il unless a 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
| of 100 hrecrackers and to make daily
visit TO the joss house This done he
/ receives the usual pills for those vacated
by the devil.
! These pills may consist Of SPOTTED rhi-
noceros horn. said to be a wonderful cure
for intestinal troubles. The spotted mi
noceros horns come from Southern
China, and in the market at Singapore a
giuulO gnocfuOn will hiring 826
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 receipt IL held by a firm in Shanghai
! that has become very wealthy by the
sale OF this tonic.
Old deer horns are boiled down 10
make the medicinal glue which binds the
fifty ingredients composing the average
] Chinese pills. AZ 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 II Just the right
kind of specific escapes the patient.
4 Equal IN medicinal efficacy TO the above
are three high-grade tiger remedies, the
eyeball. liver and blood. AS may be
imagined tiger eyeban, the genuine arti-
Gle, can be prescribed for only the ex.
ceedlngly wealthy Chinese. Similarly the
liver when dried and reduced to a powder
IS worth its weight in gold all over China
Tiger blood when evaporated 70 a solic
al a temperature OF ITO degrees and taker
as a powder is believed by Asiatics e
transform a craven into a hero.
After the patient has made the rounds
OF tho barber and travelling physician
ne now looks up his dentist. whom h
will find on any street corner in al
large Chinese cities. You arc greatly I'm
pressed nv the seriousness OF this gen
tleman. VI S is always reading and think
ing OF his collection OF some 1000 teeth OF
a table and a few bottles Of some secre
drugs which upon inquiries Chsnesr
interpreter told visitor contained TIT
, moisture OF the inner side Of an OLE
coffin which was collected after belnl
buried some ten years. A dentist in Chin;
is called a boxer by ell Cinnamon. 70
he Is supposed to have great strength Il
: his arms and hands, and also some grea
1 magic power.