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6. The fa RK sie Pao chi lun by FF Zs Lei hung or properly 
Gy Bk Lei Hiao, who is not to be confounded with the Lei kung 
medicines) and Bq FP Huong ti (styled also EP ff Hien yin and BE FE 
Yao wang, prince of medicines), alreaily spoken of—the -+ kK % mR shi ta ming t 
or ten celebrated Doctors are worshipped in the chief medical temple in Peking, called 
Yao wang miao, and in other temples. See Dr. J. Dudgeon’s interesting 
paper on Medical Divinities, Chin. Recorder 1870 ITI, p. 40. On the tablets in that 
temple we find the following names of famous physicians, I add some biographical 
notices gathered from various sources. : 
1. tik {A Kt Po, styled also HS mL Yao tsu (ancestor of medicines), a native of 
Northern China, one of the assistants of Emperor Huang ti, his tutor in medical in- 
vestigations and the reputed founder of the art of healing. Hence the phrase We rt iy. 
the science of K‘'i po and Huang ti for medical skill, See Mayers’ Chin, Read. Man. 
p. 97. The Pen ts‘ao kang mu, I. b, fol. 12 sq., gives some specimens of K‘i Po’s 
views on the nature of drugs. In the section on literature in the Sui shu mention is 
made of a work named We {A baste Ki Po king. 
2. FF ZS Lei kung, a physician of the time of Huang ti. See above No. 3. 
3, =I ‘iS Pien Ts‘iao, likewise one of the physicians of Huang ti, but according 
to another tradition a famous physician of the 6th century B.C. See his biography 
in the Shi ki (Histor. record) book 105, and Mayers’ Chin. Read. Man. p. 172, Pien 
ts‘iao, known also under the name of EB 34 J Ts‘in yiie jen, was a native of 
ea i Po hai (in the present province of Chihli, Ho kien fu), but subsequently took 
up his abode in the state of Lw, wherefore he is sometimes styled jz BS Lu i (the 
physician of Lu), He is said to have first gained a knowledge of the internal parts of 
the body, The theory of the pulse is likewise derived from his discoveries. A medical 
treatise nan king (on difficult medical questions) is attributed to him, See alphab. 
list of works, 562. 
4,78 -F- FE Chun Yii i, an official of the time of Emperor Wen ti (179-156 
B. C.), having charge of the public granaries in Ts‘, and hence entitled Ik j24 Ry 
Tui ts‘ang kung. See Mayers’ Chin. Read. Man. p. 37; Shi ki, book 105, where his 
biography is found. He devoted himself to the study of the art of medicine, in which 
he attained to wondrous skill. He has left a collection of medical prescriptions. See 
alph. list of works, 849. 
5. fe fit BE Chung Chung king, sometimes styled also $% {ip gt Ki Chung 
king or ifs i Chang Ki. Wen hien t'ung k‘ao 222, Wylie, Chin, lit, 80,82. He 
was a native of f&j [i$ Nan yang (province of Honan) and prefect of Chiang sha 
(Hu nan) during the aiter Han, it seems end of the second century. He was a celebrated 
physician and has left a treatise on fevers and several other medical writings. See 
alph. list of works, 678, 328, 329. 
6. HE [PE Hua To, literary appellation JU 4; Yiian hua, second century and first 
half of the third. A native of jifj [i 7E Pei kuo ts:iao (present Po chou, An hui), 
@ renowned physician, the Ksculapius of China, Mayers’ Chin. Read. Man. p. 68; 
Chin. Repos. II. 275; Hou Han shu, book 112b. Hua t’o is said to have been versed 
in all the secrets of Taoism, and to have been especially successful in surgical - 
operations, He is reputed to have relieved the great Ts‘ao tsao (the founder of the 
Wei dynasty, died 220) from a cerebral disease by means of an operation. He was ae 
also in possession of an anaesthetic agent for producing iusensibility during” ' 
