Grandmother Ling was the most famous bone setter of Sg. Merah.
I would just like to write a little about her so that future generations would remember her and the roles she played in setting bones. Today her daughter in law has taken over her work in Sg. Merah.
When we were young, whenever any one had a broken bone, the parents would take the child to see her and in no time, the broken bone would be healed. She was able to straighten a joint dislocation and re-set bone fractures. Besides she was also well known for healing children who had ailments modern doctors could not cure.
There were hundreds of stories like this about her in the oral history of Sibu and Sg. Merah.
From 1983 to 1987 I lived near her along the old Airport Road. And years later I wished I had learned from her something about bone setting.
But then this kind of knowledge is God given. She had learned the ways of bone setting from her elders in China.
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