all the time with the hand.  Take the blood from a live fowl’s comb, and drop it into the throat and nostrils—­the left nostril of a woman, the right of a man; also using a cock’s comb for a man, a hen’s for a woman.  Re-animation will be immediately effected.  If respiration has been suspended for a long time, there must be plenty of blowing and rubbing; do not think that because the body is cold all is necessarily over.

“Where a man has been in the water a whole night, a recovery may still be effected.  Break up part of a mud wall and pound it to dust; lay the patient thereon on his back, and cover him up with the same, excepting only his mouth and eyes.  Thus the water will be absorbed by the mud, and life will be restored.  This method is a very sure one, even though the body has become stiff.

“In cases of injury from scalding, get a large oyster and put it in a basin with its mouth upwards somewhere quite away from anybody.  Wait till its shell opens, and then shake in from a spoon a little Borneo camphor, mixed and rubbed into a powder with an equal portion of genuine musk.  The oyster will then close its shell and its flesh will be melted into a liquid.  Add a little more of the above ingredients, and with a fowl’s feather brush it over the parts and round the wound, getting nearer and nearer every time till at last you brush it into the wound; the pain will thus gradually cease.  A small oyster will do if a large one is not to be had.  This is a first-rate prescription.

“Where a man has fallen into the water in winter, and has quite lost all consciousness from cold, if there is the least warmth about the chest, life may still be restored.  Should the patient show the slightest inclination to laugh, stop up his nose and mouth at once, or he will soon be unable to leave off, and it will be impossible to save him.  On no account bring a patient hastily to the fire, for the sight of fire will excite him to immoderate laughter, and his chance of life is gone.

“In cases of nightmare, do not at once bring a light, or going near call out loudly to the sleeper, but bite his heel or his big toe, and gently utter his name.  Also spit on his face and give him ginger tea to drink; he will then come round. Or, Blow into the patient’s ears through small tubes, pull out fourteen hairs from his head, make them into a twist and thrust into his nose.  Also, give salt and water to drink.  Where death has resulted from seeing goblins, take the heart of a leek and push it up the patient’s nostrils—­the left for a man, the right for a woman.  Look along the inner edge of the upper lips for blisters like grains of Indian corn, and prick them with a needle.”

The work concludes with an antidote against a certain dangerous poison known as Ku, originally discovered by a Buddhist priest and successfully administered in a great number of cases.  Its ingredients,