Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-23

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for a week But it was too late. Blood
poisoning set It. His people took him
away to crafty that last desire Of
every Chinese. to die in his own
home.
A prevailing Chinese medical prac.
tise IL to stick q long needle into
the patient According to Chimes med
ical lore, there are three hundred spots
where this needing may be benefit
cially done, for different complaints.
In some cases the results are not
serious, and needing may, at times,
even have some value as ascounter.
irritant. But the needles are usually
rusty and dirty; and when they are
stuck into the abdomen or eye-ball
and stirred about as one would beat
an egg, the result need not be des.
eribed Many appear at the hospital
whose eyes have been completely de
stroyed by the practise
Then there are pathetic young
mothers, whose relatives never send
for the foreign-trained doctor tiil the
dirty, ignorant Chinese midwiyes have
made q bad state Of affairs az much
worse as possible; many ,cf them
make marvellous fecoveries from the
torture they have undergone.
The usual Chinese treatment for
an ulcer or bon Is 10 go to an apo
thecafy's shop and buy d plaster that
is black and very sticky. This is
firmly applied to the skin so that the
sore is entirely unable 10 discharge
and keep itself clean. n q black tplas-
ter is unavailable, the sore Is treated
with some dirty powder and wrapped
up in filthy cotton. And the poor VIC
tim wonders why he grows worse
rather than BETTER, and perhaps in
the end goes in despair to the foreign
medicine house, always to be,
helped, often to be cured.
Men and women there are, too, of a
suffering deeper than pains Of the
body, who have desired to ESCAPE the
obligations of life that isgtoo hard,
or In fit of anger have determined
to be avenged on the persons that
reused their wrath, by cutting their
own threats, or swallowing their Jew
elry. Sometimes they change their
minds and fmpiore relief; sometimes
they are not grateful TO the doctor for
restoring to them the gift OF life.
Fame cf the Medicine houser
So wide recognition Is the doctor
winning that the governor Of the dis
trict sent for him when his august
head became badly infected. Only a
prompt operation under an anaesthet-
ic saved him, while a friend OF his.
With a similar trouble, who confined
himself to Chinese doctors, died. The
governor was so pleased that he made
generous gift to the hospital and
sent TO the doctor q beautiful eIois-
Onne vase with a grateful inscript zion.
Grateful, too. is the man with q
chain around his neck, who each day
is escorted by two guards to the med
icine house" sent by q kind-hearted
official because an infected head was
causing general blood poisoning. Even.
the lncouth guards were impressed,
with the kindness OF the Christian re-.
Iigfon. Prisoners also have been sent
whose thighs were terribly bruised,
by beating, or robbers with broken
legs.
Even ouack Chinese doctors and
propriet0rS or native medicine Shops
with their unspeakahle remedies, are.
beginning to bug the good medicine, :"
which they admit Is used by the for
eigntrained doctors, and to attend the.
doctors lectures on hygiene at the
street chapel And the army medical
corps. attached to the various en-
campments in and around the city,
pays tribute to the foreign hospital by
sending many cases for treatment,
beth prfyates and officers.
So orr Tiinschou medicine house,
whatever its pItfful limitations to the
foreigners eye, IN the line Of ooerat-
ing facifities. wards. and general
equipment, Is yet, to our Chinese
neighbors. the place of a wonderful.
kind magic that works unbelievable
healing In the Eame of the true God
(To Be continued.)