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SEEING SNAKES-AND EATING THEM:
WHERE WEARY HUSBANDS GET NEW
[BY HERBERT FIELD.)
cared, I could remain and watch him treat a number of his "pati- ents." I stayed.
PEP."
There are many people who decry
▲ Dangerous "* Profession."" "The cocktail habit" in the Far
It is a good thing for the East. As a general rule, these
venom-glands to remain," said the people have seldom been beypad The first "patient" was a Chi-doctor," "because the gall im Suez, Seattle, or Vancouver. Had nese gentleman, apparently of some then in perfect condition. When a they done so, it is probable that mesos, who complained that his snake's vooom is exhausted or ex- they would realise that, in Hoog wife and concubines had reduced tracted, the gall is seldom of any Kong, for instance, there are times him to a state of nervous prostra-use for medicinal purposes. It acts when the only thing which appeals tion by reason of their incessant as a tonic to the brain and liver, more than a nice cocktail is demands upon hie parse and pati- although the galls from different two cocktails!
species hare different effects.
ence
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And, should the tired European
The "doctor" tested his "pati- "The gall of a cobra, for in- who is over-harassed by business ent" by "means of knee-tapping stance, is useful for curing opiuin worries and disgruntled by climatic and other methods not unlike those addicts. Smoked in moderation, conditions imbibe not wisely but adopted by Western practitioners.opium is not very harmful, in my too well, he is frequently hard put Satisfied with his diagnosis, he gave opinion. When indulged in to ex- to it to discover an efficient pick-the patient" a powder which was cess, however, opium-smoking be me up the next morning. But not washed down with a mouthful or comes so the Chinese.
Curac. I cure nearly, a two of warm water. This little hundred addicts every year." performance cost the "patient" The ." doctor" admitted that 83. The "doctor" explained to me handling the snakes in the first that the powder consisted of the instance was a dangerous practice, third section from the tail-end of the vertebrm of 's young python, but explained that the snakes were This part of the anake's backbone mide lethargic and more or less was considered to be an extraordi stupified by excessive feeding be marily efficient nerve-stimulant, fore they were used in the surgery. Thus it was comparatively easy for an expert to grasp them firmis by strike at his hand. the neck before the reptiles could
The Snake Doctor, Actual intoxication among the Chinese is exceedingly rare. Even during Chinese New Year and similar festivals, despite frequent yum eings," Mr. Tong Yan usual. ly contrives to keep a very clear head, notwithstanding the quantity of sam shui ho may consume. Europeans who attend Chinese din-| ners often marvel at this, for they themselves find that Chinese wines ate the reverse of innocuous," and have a most devastating effect upon the equilibrua if one is unaccus tomed to them.
Groat Snakes!
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"Several varieties of snakes were used, the majority of them having been caught in the New Territories by catubers in the " doctor's " employ. Bamboo anakes, small pythone, black cobras and whip strokes were operated upon to patients," supply the needs of
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The next patient confessed to suffering from the after-effects of too much yar sing. In this stance, the docter" did not at tempt a diagnosis, but signalled a coolie to bring him a large basket Nevertheless, there
which was standing in a corner of timesį zre
the гости. when our worthy Tong Yan gets! that morning-after-the-night-be.
Carefully lifting the lid of the fore" feeling. He may call genting basket, the "doctor" made a sud Lo his aid, although there are other den grab and held aloft a black remedies and pick-me-ups which are suake, about four feet long, which the regarded by the Chinese as being writhed and hissed alarmingly pa running fire of commentary more infallible and of almost Holding the saake just below the and explanation, universal application.
head firmly in his left hand with He told me that, when the gall his foot on its tail and, stretching was removed, a snake would live its length across his knee in such for about three weeks, during which powerless to move, be
manner that the reptile was time its venom would be removed felt care- for making certain internal medi- under the make's middle.. cines. When it was dead, it was
bones being ground to make pow- explained. "For some unaccount- edible or medical requirements, the
ders. Nothing was wasted.
Quite recently, a Chinese friend
took me to meet a "snake doctor. He occupied a little fiat at the top
of a block of Chinese dream feeling for its gal," he dissected,..the flesh being used for
near Shanghai Street, in Yaumati.
I found the saake doctor" to be
a very pleasant little old gentle-able reason, no two reptiles bave man, able to converse in fluent the gall in the same position." English or French upon almost any subject under the sun, well-versed
Picking up a sharp knife, he
in the Weetera classies and, in hie made a quick incision in the snake's ancient Chinese pharmacopeia," ho
out the gall, which he handed to body, inserted a fuger and hooked
owed it and then left the "eur the patient" who quickly ewal
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"People are apt to ecoff at the concluded, "but it contains one certain cure for typhoid, namely, chicken and then rubbing the body the killing and plucking of a
nent, tidy rooms, calling to mind the pictures one sees from time to time of dignified old Mandarins, an impression which was heightened by his cheong sam of vivid yellow, decorated with peacock-blue dra
While the "operation" was being of ae infected person with its bleed- gons. He explained that he treated spoke hissed repeatedly, its forked manner in half the time taken by performed, the tautly-stretched been cured in "Hong Kong in this ing flesh. Many Europeans have a variety of ailments among the tongue shooting rapidly in and out: Western medical practices." Chinese with the assistance of of its mouth. The "doctor's'
snakes.
In the "Surgery."""
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task looked a comparatively simple When the surgery" "was closed. one until he explained that the we adjourned to the ** doctor's " Ao outer гром constituted the snake tras venomous, aud ile private-apartments to take Chincze surgery." It was likely to be a venom-glands had not been extract- "chow,"
busy morning, he said, and, if I ed.
But, somehow, I lacked appetite!
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