Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular/Notes—Medical

by Lim Hiong Seng

Lesson XXIX.
Notes—Medical.

我今日人不好

Uá kiáⁿ-jít nâng m̄-móⁿ

I am unwell to-day.

爾能可去睡

Lṳ́ nêng-kò khṳ̀-tó

You had better go and lie down.

爾個人如何

Lṳ́ kâi nâng tsò-nîⁿ?

What is the matter with you?

人𤍠

Nâng zuáh

I have got fever.

要請先生否

Âiⁿ-chhiáⁿ sin-seⁿ mē?

Do you wish to engage a doctor?

爾個脉猛

Lṳ́ kâi méhⁿ méⁿ

Your pulse is fast.

我零些寒藥與爾食

Uá lân-ló kûaⁿ-iéh pun lṳ́ chiáh

I will give you some quinine to take.

如何食

Tsò-nîⁿ-chiáh?

How am I to take it?

配零㸃冷水

Thōu tiám-kiáⁿ chhìn-tsúi

Take it with a little cold water.

三包在此

Saⁿ-pau toõ-chié

Here's three packets.

壹日食三餐

Chék-jít chiáh saⁿ-tǹg

Take one packet three times a day.

壹餮食壹包

Chék-tǹg chiáh chék-pau

Take a packet each time.

此樣病醫難好

Chí-khí pēⁿ ui oh-hó

This kind of sickness is difficult to cure.

着請西國先生來醫正能好

Tiéh-chhiáⁿ Sai-kok sin-seⁿ lâi ui chiàⁿ-õi-hó

You must get a European doctor to cure you, otherwise you will not be cured.

先生。請爾開張藥方

Sin-seⁿ, chhiáⁿ-lṳ́ khui-tieⁿ iéh-hng

Doctor, please make out a prescription.

我來去醫館携藥

Uá lâi-khṳ̀ ui-kuán khiéh-iéh

I will go to the hospital and get the medicine.

用雞毛抹

Ēng koi-môⁿ buah

Apply it with a fowl's feather.

手勿摸着

Chhiú màiⁿ-thãng--tiéh

Don't touch it with the fingers.

爾有何冒病

Lṳ́ ũ sĩ-mîh mâuⁿ-pēⁿ?

What sickness have you?

縻脚

Mîⁿ-kha

A bad leg.

縻至今有巳久了

Mîⁿ-kàu-taⁿ ũ jiéh-kú--lō?

How long has it been ulcerated.

有成年

U^ chiâⁿ-nîⁿ

About a year.

會癢或袂

Ōi-chiẽⁿ a-bõi?

Does it itch?

若是會癢不可搔

Nãⁿ-sĩ õi-chiẽⁿ m̄-móⁿ pê

If it itches, you mustn't scratch it.

歸去。着尅苦奈

Kui-khṳ̀, tiéh khah-khóu nãiⁿ

Let it be, you must do your best to bear it.

每明早。起來。用此藥水洗

Chék-mêng-khí khí-lâi-kâu ēng chiá iéh-tsúi sói

When you get up in the morning, wash it with this lotion.

伊個病重

I-kâi pēⁿ tãng

His illness is serious.

甚着力。要死

Tih-lát-tsãi, àiⁿ-sí

Very serious, almost dying.

無救了

Bô-kiù--lō

There is no hope, (lit. there is no salvation.)

不可亂食

Màiⁿ-thèng-chiáh

Don't be eating what you shouldn't eat.

食粥配鹹梅則可

Chiáh-mûeⁿ phùe kiâm-bûe chiũ-hó

Take congee with salted plums.