Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — A Prosperous Chinese Doctor. [ARTICLE]

A Prosperous Chinese Doctor.

A celebrity among the Chinese of San Francisco is their great doctor, Li Po Tai, says the N. Y. Medical Times. -He--has--been- in this country nearly thirty years, and has a larger income from his profession than any white practitioner in the city. His patients all come to the office when able, and Li Po Tai sits up, habited in gorgeous silks and brocades, in a little deo of an office overlooking the plaza, and feels pulses all day long. The patients are mostly white people, who come to him after a varied round of their own physicians, or at the instigation of some resurrected and enthusiastic patients. Li Po Tai rests the patients’ elbows on a blue silk cushion and proceeds to feel their right pulse with his threehooked and long-clawed fingers. He feels the right pulse to ascertain the condition of the brain, stomach and kidneys, and then grasps the left wrist to find out about the heart, liver and lungs. Although he knows practically nothing of anatomy as our physicians know it, he makes a wonderful diagnosis of a case. He charges $lO a week for his services, including his medicines, and patients either come to his office and drink the tissanes or take packages of mysterious stuff homo and make their own hot drinks.