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A patient suffered from abdominal pain and consulted Ge Kejiu for pulse diagnosis. Ge told the family, "There is a 'flesh turtle' (a pathological accumulation) in the abdomen. When he falls into a deep sleep, I will needle it. Do not let the patient know; if he knows, the turtle will hide." The patient asked his family members, who lied to him, saying, "The doctor says this is caused by cold qi stagnation. Drinking plenty of strong wine will disperse it naturally." The patient was pleased, raised his cup and drank heavily, falling into a drunken slumber. His family quickly notified Ge. Ge used a needle on the affected area. The patient woke up startled, applied medicinal plasters, and shortly after, an object was expelled, resembling a turtle in shape. There was a hole at its head where the needle had entered, and the illness was cured.

The son of a wealthy man in Huai'an suddenly fell ill, perceiving upright objects as slanted. Any neatly arranged items such as tables or books had to be moved until they were tilted for him to consider them straight. This extended to writing letters and characters. His parents were deeply worried and consulted several doctors who could not understand the disease. Hearing of a famous local physician named Ji Lao, they took their son to seek treatment. After diagnosing the pulse, Ji Lao instructed the father to return home first, keeping the son behind to enjoy music and a banquet with heavy drinking until he was thoroughly intoxicated. The patient was placed in a sedan chair and carried around, with the carriers tilting and rotating him frequently for a long time before letting him lie down on the bed. By dawn, when the smell of alcohol had faded, he was sent home. Objects that appeared slanted the previous day now appeared straight. His parents jumped for joy and asked about the treatment method. Ji Lao said, "This illness resulted from a sprain during drunkenness, causing one lobe of the liver to rest upon the lung lobes, thus making upright objects appear slanted. Now, by inducing severe intoxication again, the lungs become distended. During the rotation, the organs naturally returned to their original positions, so vision became normal. How could medicine cure this?" The wealthy man generously rewarded him with gold, silver, and silk.

Zhang Zihe's *Shi Xing San Liao* records: Dai Ren treated the wife of Magistrate Wang, who suffered from chest and diaphragm discomfort. Dai Ren administered an emetic, causing her to vomit out a Lei Bai Chong (Thunder White Worm), five or six inches long, with a mouth, nose, and teeth. The patient angrily broke it open and found a single white hair inside. I have verified cases such as a monk from Huizhou suffering from dysphagia, who expelled an object from his abdomen resembling a fish, known as a Sheng Jia (formed mass). In the early Jiajing era, the wife of Mr. Zou in Changzhou developed a lump in the lower left abdomen, shaped like a plum or li fruit. After a long time, she vomited it up. Initially, it was putrid and ulcerated, resembling rice grains; later, it resembled clam meat. When pinched open with fingers, several long hairs were found inside. Famous physicians could not cure it, and she eventually died. I have often seen accounts of Sheng Jia such as snake-hair masses recorded in medical texts. These may occasionally arise from food interactions and blood formation; theoretically, they exist and should not be dismissed as absurd.