CHINESE "DOCTORS"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 7

CHINESE "DOCTORS"

"PRACTITIONERS" ARRESTED IN MELBOURNE. . Ninety pills a day would appear to be a rather drastic prescription, but,accord- 1 iim• to. information given to the .Mel- ' bourne police (states the "Age"), it is : what one iwtient was ordered to take by ■[ a. Chinese herbalist who, the detectives ' , state, was practising as a doctor. - i For : : some time the operations of Chinese ; "doctors" have been engaging the atten- , tion of medical authorities, and the mat- . tor having been brought, under the notice : of the Chief Commissioner of Police, Sir • Ocoiw Steward instructed Inspector Banlion to have an inquiry made.' Detectives Ashton, I'iggott, ana' Davey took ■ .a departmental car, and visited the Oriental "doctors" in city and suburbs. ■' Before-tliev had half finished they found that, according lo those diagnosticians, : each ono of them was afflicted by all ; tlm ills mankind is heir to. Among tho patients interrognted ; one confiding wo. man stated she ha« . taken, eighty-six , bottles ot medicine and been treated for I liver complaint, whereas her real trouble ■' was a ewelliug of the knee joint. She ; had mid a considerable sum of money, ■ and. not being able to find more, was ; ejected from the "surgery." A patient j who had waited a long timo for an audi- i ence with a prominent practitioner was stunned, after auscultation .and a close v ophthalmalic inspection, at being tola!, lie was "welly dirty insi', top si, bottom ; si', all s.bow," and that it would cost : him a lot of money to bo cured. The ; poor man had thought nerves was his trouble.