A CHINESE CUSTOM.
Major Thompson, I.M.S. tells an extra- j ordinary story in the last number of the Indian Medical Gazette. A Chinese boy was brought into Pekin Hospital terribly injured by a heavy log falling on him. The doctors, to save his life, cut off his leg. The mother came, and Major Thompson thought she would help to nurse the lad. The patient, however, almost immediately afterwards died, and expert examination showud his own mother had given . him arsenic. Her reason, it is supposed, was to prevent her son from the disgrace of reaching the next world in a maimed condition. This is a very strong point with the Chinese, who always pickle an amputated member to have it buried with them when they eventually die, In this instance, the family being poor and a whole eg difficult to pickle, tho simpler course was taken of poisoning the boy, so that he and his leg might go together.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 November 1901, Page 4
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159A CHINESE CUSTOM. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 November 1901, Page 4
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