In the past, a man claimed to be a specialist in curing hunchbacks. His signboard read: I specialize in curing hunchbacks. No matter whether you are hunchbacked like a bow, a shrimp1, a basket for rinsing2 rice or a rice pot, I guarantee that once I start treatment, your hunchback will be cured.
One hunchback saw the signboard, believed it to be true, and asked for treatment.
The doctor neither gave any prescription3, nor let the patient take any medicine. All the medical instrument he had was two boards for pressing. One board was put on the ground, on which the hunchback was told to lie on his stomach. Another board was pressed on and tied tightly with the hunchback. Then the doctor jumped onto the board and trampled4 upon it at random5 with all his might. As a result, the hunchback was straightened, but, alas6, he was dead and gone also.
When the hunchback's son learned of this, of course he had it out with the doctor. But the doctor said: My job is to straighten his back. It's none of my business whether he is dead or alive.
以前，有個人自稱專治駝背，他的招牌上寫著：本人專治駝背，無論你駝得像弓，像蝦，像淘籮，像飯鍋，但凡經我醫治，保證藥到病除。
有一個駝背，看到招牌，果然信以為真，就請他醫治。
他既不開藥方，也不讓吃藥。他所有些醫療器具，就只不過兩塊夾板。他把一塊板放在地上，叫駝背趴在上面，用另一塊壓在駝背的身上，然后用繩索繃緊。接著，他便自己跳到板上，拼命用腳亂踩一番。結果，那個人的駝背算是給壓直了，可是他的性命也就嗚呼哀哉了。
駝背的兒子了解了，自然要與那個大夫評理，那大夫卻說：我只管把他的駝背弄直，哪能管他的死活!