56 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Materia medica, the nature and properties of medicines, and to 
general directions for their prescription. The Chinese system of 
Pharmacology is explained in this chapter. Many quotations 
from the early writers on the subject are given, illustrating the 
views entertained up to the present time by the Chinese on the 
medical virtues of drugs. 
The 8rd and 4th chapters comprehend an enumeration of the 
varions diseases, and the medicines suitable for their treatment 
(Hi wi i B. 
The rest of the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, chapters 5—52, is occupied 
by accounts of drugs and natural objects, and their use as medi- 
cines. ‘These are arranged under 16 4% pu or divisions, and 62 
46 let or classes, which comprise in all 1892 § chung or species. 
374 of the latter are recorded for the first time by Li Shi chen. 
8160 prescriptions are given in connection with these drugs. 
The 16 pu or divisions are: 
A. Inanimate substances. 
1. Water. 
2. Fire. 
3. Earth. Chap. 5—11, 
4. Metals and Stones. 
B. Plants. Chap. 12—36. 
1. Herbs. ; 
2. Grains, One chapter (37) is devoted to 
3. Vegetables. garments and domestic uten- 
4, Fruits. sils appertaining to medicine. 
5. Trees. 
C. Animals. Chap, 38—52. 
1. Insects. 
2. Scaly Animals (Dragons, Serpents, Fishes). 
3. Shelly Animals (Tortoises, Mollusks). 
4. Birds. 
5. Quadrupeds, 
6. Man. 
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