On the sixteenth day of the first month they are visited by the townspeople, who rub them energetically with their hands, all over from end to end.

Every spot so touched confers immunity from pain upon the corresponding region of their own bodies for the ensuing year.

And so from year to year these images are visited.

Pain accordingly is almost absent from the city, and only that man suffers pain who has the temerity to neglect the opportunity of insuring himself against it.
I was called to a case of opium-poisoning in Chaotong.

A son came in casually to seek our aid in saving his father, who had attempted suicide with a large over-dose of opium.