Show chinese chiaese hiedi medicines cines A physician of manayunk Mana yunk pa haa aw indis his laboratory y a alim number ber 1 or of tl chinese I 1 i 1 medicines that thai were brought to himl from china as curiosities by a methodist nt missionary these medicines are inconceivably they are little vials one of these contains centi cent careful carefully lf dried and stretched on sticks in another are the grou ground nl i teeth of tigers A third contains cicada cl ca or locust shell and a fourth dried drieda spiders stretched on sticks in iii other jars are shavings of ivory from ah elephants tusks aled silk worms dried lizards and powdered snakes snake skins the hair of little children cufa cut very line fine and mixed with fish oil is probably as difficult a medicine to di 11 t gest as any in this strange cabinet thou though h such a lose dose might seem please pleas ant enough to the native of the in gerior of china where the sick often talce human hilman flesh as a medicine the late cortlandt rodge hodge I had indubitable proof luring during his ill fated residence in im china of that cannibalistic practice |