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John Chinaman at Home; Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China

Edward John Hardy

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI MEDICINE AND SURGERY Chinese medicines horrible--They euro, however, the man who is fated not to die--A recipe for ophthalmia--Large doses--A sort of multum in parvo-- Dosed to death--A Chinaman loves free medicines--" It is his pig "-- "A little dragon inside me "--Transforming medicines--To give courage --Blood bread--"Dragon's clothes"--An old remedy--The dootor's shop--A saying of Confucius--Pulses--Due proportions--Three classes of doctors--Payment by results--Simples--Aoupuncture--Too patient-- Jokes against doctors--Superstitious remedies. AT Canton there are schools where Chinese men and women are taught Western medicine, and similar ones are being started in other cities. The remedies, too, that are used by native medical men in the treaty ports have been modified by contact with Europeans, but at a little distance from these ports strange and extremely nasty preparations such as physicked our Middle Ages are still prescribed. A missionary doctor told me that when called in to see a man suffering from fits he found him smelling white mice in a cage, with a dead fowl fastened on his chest and a bundle of grass attached to his feet. He had been informed that this would cure him. What do our readers think of glue made of asses' sinews and of fowls' blood, of bears' gall, of shavings of the horn of a rhinoceros, of fungus grown upon a coffin, of the dung of dogs, pigs, fowls, rabbits, pigeons, and of bats, as medicines? Cockroach tea cheers as littlo as it inebriates, but is believed to be medicinal. I have been told that a bear's paw when m made into soup is a "number one" cure for wind in the stomach. Other ailments are cured by a decoction of the paws of monkeys. Toad's eyebrows provoke sneezing, and thus clear the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Chinaman at Home; Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China. To get started finding John Chinaman at Home; Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI MEDICINE AND SURGERY Chinese medicines horrible--They euro, however, the man who is fated not to die--A recipe for ophthalmia--Large doses--A sort of multum in parvo-- Dosed to death--A Chinaman loves free medicines--" It is his pig "-- "A little dragon inside me "--Transforming medicines--To give courage --Blood bread--"Dragon's clothes"--An old remedy--The dootor's shop--A saying of Confucius--Pulses--Due proportions--Three classes of doctors--Payment by results--Simples--Aoupuncture--Too patient-- Jokes against doctors--Superstitious remedies. AT Canton there are schools where Chinese men and women are taught Western medicine, and similar ones are being started in other cities. The remedies, too, that are used by native medical men in the treaty ports have been modified by contact with Europeans, but at a little distance from these ports strange and extremely nasty preparations such as physicked our Middle Ages are still prescribed. A missionary doctor told me that when called in to see a man suffering from fits he found him smelling white mice in a cage, with a dead fowl fastened on his chest and a bundle of grass attached to his feet. He had been informed that this would cure him. What do our readers think of glue made of asses' sinews and of fowls' blood, of bears' gall, of shavings of the horn of a rhinoceros, of fungus grown upon a coffin, of the dung of dogs, pigs, fowls, rabbits, pigeons, and of bats, as medicines? Cockroach tea cheers as littlo as it inebriates, but is believed to be medicinal. I have been told that a bear's paw when m made into soup is a "number one" cure for wind in the stomach. Other ailments are cured by a decoction of the paws of monkeys. Toad's eyebrows provoke sneezing, and thus clear the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Chinaman at Home; Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China. To get started finding John Chinaman at Home; Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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