Show CHINESE prescriptions some horrick doses the doctors mix fur bleir patients the S ew york chinese doctors are beginning to lose their hold upon their heretofore devoted clients this has been accomplished by simple but solid american medical genius it has been the custom ever since the chinese colony began to put on airs in new york for sick from all parts of the connary this side of the bocky mountains to come to gotham to consult with their big medicine men of whom there are over a dozen who have their fantastic shingles hung up in mott I 1 street upon the doors of their domi ciles besides this they give a bigger prescription and heavier doses than thair american competitors these chinese physicians will devote from two to six hours to feeling your pulse and all for the munificent sum of from a quarter to a fifty cent piece imagine a man who having taken a biff boso doso of opium with the avowed purpose of having his carcass housed in evergreen cemetery as early as possible so that his bones may be ready for speedy shipment to china having a doctor with big round eyo glasses down to feel the poor fellows pulse for two hours and a half and then civo him the following prescription to be boiled into a soup and then drank pickled lizards two pairs 4 males and 4 females corea ginseng root A an ounce willow cricket skins half a dozen 3 males and 3 females sweet potato vines 1 oun rattlesnake tail of an ounce black dates 2 ounces elm bark an ounce devil fish toes an ounce reindeers rein deers horn an ounce birds claws of an ounce dried ginger of an ounce coffin nails old ones an aunee boil tho whole with 2 quarts of water until only half the water is left und then drink it as a preliminary dose such was the prescription given on last friday afternoon to a poor laun dryman on tho comer of broome and delancy streets by a chinese doctor who said bis office was at 18 mott street but fortunately for the patient before tho famous prescription was put up by a chinese druggist on mott street his friend ah sing rushed to an american doctor near chinatown tho latter went to the dying man and restored him to consciousness before the deadly messenger got back |