A traditional doctor, claiming to be a student of a famous practitioner in Shaoxing, treated Lu's father, who was suffering from dropsy. His prescription called for "a pair of crickets, each being the first and only mating partner of the other," "drum skin pellets," and the like.
那位紹興城「軒轅岐伯的嫡派門徒」，為魯迅得了水腫的父親看病，所開藥方竟是些「原配蟋蟀一對、敗鼓皮丸」等。