昔有医人，自媒能治背驼，曰：“如弓者、为虾者、如曲环者，延吾治，可朝治而夕如矢。”一人信焉，而使治驼。乃索板二片，以一置地下，卧驼者其上，又以一压焉，而即踩焉，驼者随直，亦复随死。 其子欲鸣诸官，医人曰：“我业治驼，但管人直，那管人死。”
——《雪涛小说》
Treating Hunchbacks
There
was once a charlatan who claimed he could cure deformities of the spine. “Whether
your back is like a bow, a shrimp, a ring, or whatever you please, come to me
and I’ll straighten it in no time.” One
hunchback was credulous enough to take his words at their face value and came
to him for treatment. The charlatan made him lie prone on a plank, put another
on his hump, then jumped up and down on it with all his might. The hump was
straightened, but the man died. The
man’s son wanted to sue him, but he charlatan said, “My job is to straighten
his hump. Whether or not he dies, has nothing to do with me.”
Stories by Xue Tao （杨宪益、戴乃迭 译） |
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