102 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
having been written in Chinese. One of the best Chinese works 
on Medicine is of Corean origin. The 3 $8 ¥¥ $2 Tung i pao 
kien, or Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine, written during the 
Ming, at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century, by 
if Ye Hi Pa, a native of pf 28 Yang ping in South-western 
Corea, embraces the whole compass of medicine, as well as Ma- 
teria medica. It comprises 28 large books and has been several 
times republished in China. Although it claims in some respects 
_to be original, this originality refers more to the arrangement of 
the matter, and as can be concluded from the quotations, it was 
compiled from Chinese authors. It does not seem that Corean 
Medicine and Materia medica differ from Chinese works on the 
subject. As in the Corean language a large portion of Chinese 
words and phrases, even for common expressions, have been bor- 
rowed from the Chinese, we need not be surprised to find that 
many plants grown in Corea are known to the natives only by 
their Chinese names. Corean names for the most common plants 
in that country may be found in Dr. Siebold’s ¥f 4 Lad ho, of 
Vocabularium sinense in koraianum conversum, opus sinicum ori- 
gine in peninsula Korai impressum, 1838; and also in Putzillo’s 
Russian-Corean Dictionary (in Russian), 1874. 
Lately a more complete Corean dictionary has been published 
with the title: Dictionnaire Coréen-Francais, par les Missionnaires 
de Corée. Yokohama, 1880, 
There is also no original Manchoo system of Medicine or Ma- 
teria medica extant. As is known, Manchoo literature dates only 
from the end of the 17th century and consists of translations from 
Chinese works, such as Dictionaries, the Classics, Histories of 
China, novels, etc. As far as I know the only Manchoo work on 
Medicine is a treatise on Anatomy, translated from a European 
work by the Jesuit Father Parennin, in 1723. My colleague and 
friend, Dr. Dudgeon, possesses a manuscript copy of this trans- 
lation, illustrated by beautifully executed drawings. (See his 
“Report of the Peking Hospital for 1878 and 1879,” p. 46.) 
A manuscript copy of the same, but without drawings, is 
likewise found in the Library of the Russian Legation at 
Peking. = 
