Show QUEER ORIENTAL DRUGS Powdered Rhinoceros Horn Is a Sovereign Remedy and Tiger Eyes Will WiH Cure Anything At any Chinese drugstore you ou can i buy for tor 25 23 cents an n assortment nt of oC dried rt I herbs herbs' Insects and 1 other weird things composing g a n. prescription that It is state l will cure the ailments of or ordinary ordinary orol- orol nar nary pe people but when It comes to the nick ness el pf pt a a. wealthy Chinaman then there are drugs druss which arc are as aM high In t theIr reputed medicinal virtues First In the list of ot all these sovereign remedies J is th the powder made mude from n a spotted rhinoceros horn An ordinary rhinoceros rl horn Is la said to be t less les m- m the spotted variety Is a 3 won von euro cure the for or Intestinal disorders TheM Thesa horns which hl h It Is 15 satisfactory to learn come chINt chiefly from Crom some of oC the In the Philippines bring as high a aC af 0 oO 50 each In the Singapore pore Chinese Q drug market In the the- Japanese la thc they were catalogued n ns as unicorn horn at least that Is Is- what th lt u uni unicorns orns hor horn Is supposed to h have bare e b been n. n Next to spotted d rhinoceros come the three UJ tiger r remedies the thc the eyeball the tho and n 1 the blood As S mo may b be Imag imag- ined med tiger r eyeball can on only be he pre pre- d for tor th the exceedingly IY wealthy the Chinese ChInee se AstoN Morgans lor nR J and ander but tut It is la firmly believed there IB Is no dl ell will not cure The The- tI tiger er when whIm dried and reduced to a powder pow pow- w der Is Is' worth Ha Its weight In gold all over oyer the Orient Tiger TIep blood evaporated rated to n a sediment at a n temperature of ot degrees e r cs taken and In the thC form forO ofa uta ut of ufa a powder Is believed ed b by all til to tobe tobe tobe be the best tonIc tonIc- tonic known known and will make a fine warrior out of ot the most moat chickenhearted chicken chicken- heart hearted l lIn In desperate rat cases Cuc when nel nether neither her spotted horn hera nor horni nor tiger User cye- cye j ball affords relief the Chinese physicians clans eans prescribe what Is 18 known as a ma- ma Joon loon This J Is a no t compound of or ground 1 pearls and other precious stones which I It Is h hold held ld that nothing but the malign Influence of ot some po erful devil can overcome O A of or course coulSe Is high- high priced medicine but it has hns fallen allen a Il good deal In the p estimation because because be be- cause caus the Chinese doctors are suspected 1 of oC taking taking- antu advantage e of tho the patients patient's state and craftily substitute a a. fraudulent powder of or gh glass j and mother- mother of pear In this n way vay thc they pock pocket t a handsome difference attributing th the death of the time patient nt to ji t l de devil ever er more mOle powerful than the It Il would that the Chinese se medical profession ilon Is not above f tome some qUe I I bl bie practices and Is much In need of ot a a. system to guarantee guarantee- the purity of at maj maI ma- ma j I Joons Next In price and virtue to the foregoing fore fore- r going remedies are are the various oils and fats obtained from serpents The more I the I serpent erpent the themore more potent ap al- ap- ap parenti are Its medicinal qualities Tho ra fat t from Crom the tall of a cobra cobral applied externally Is highly prized In Eastern Asia ItS as a cur curt for chronic In conn connection with Chinese e medicine It n occur to many people In the United d States that they have rare rarely If Ir ever er seen a 3 armed one or le ope ed Chinaman The reason rca for tor this Is that all nil Orientals have hare a profound objection to surgIcal op operations Indeed they thc prefer to die rather than thun lose a it m mem- mem m- m t 1 bert ber bt because caule they believe leya that as the they J came Into the he world with two arms tw two r legs etc te the they must of or necessity go o out of It with the amu number Otherwise something horribly unlucky might ht hap hap- pen They might for fOt Instance be sent tent to 0 hunt for the missing arm or 1 and I spend half their futurity In finding It it One of the greatest the ne new school chool of medicine in Ja flat Had to tc 1 overcome o Is 15 to Induce the people to sub I 1 mit to operations St. St St St. Louisi Louis I i Gl Globe be- be bemo mo rat 1 l t j |