BOTANICON SINICUM. 103 
An interesting list of Manchoo names of plants and drugs, with 
the equivalent Chinese names added, is found in the great Com- 
parative Dictionary in Chinese and three other Eastern Asiatic 
languages, of which we shall speak further on. The Manchoo 
names referring to Chinese plants not found in Manchuria are 
frequently forged. 
The system of medicine adopted by the Mongol physicians in 
Mongolia seems to be based on Tibetan principles of the art of 
healing. The majority of medicines used in Mongolia are com- 
pounded of Tibetan drugs." Very little on the subject has hitherto 
come under the notice of investigators into Eastern Asiatic medi- 
cine. There are several Tibetan treatises on the art of healing 
and Materia medica. Cosma de Kéros has given the Analysis 
of @ Tibetan medical work in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal, IV, p. 1, but he does not say much regarding Tibetan 
medicines. I had once an opportunity of seeing in Peking a kind 
of Tibetan Natural histury, with rude drawings, in which the 
Tibetan names of natural objects were accompanied with the cor- 
responding Chinese names. The book was styled AR i Pen t‘ao 
in Chinese. 
Dr. J. Rehmann, a Russian physician,* procured in 1805 in 
Maimaicheng (on the frontier of Mongolia, opposite Kiakhta) 60 
Tibetan (or Chinese) drugs used by the Mongol physicians. He 
examined these specimens with the assistance of the botanist 
Redowsky and described them (in German) in a small pamphlet 
entitled: Beschreibung einer Tibetanischen Hand-Apotheke. 
St. Petersburg, 1811. Rehmann gives also the Tibetan names 
of each drug in Tibetan letters and the pronunciation in German, 
41 There is in the city of Urga, in Northern Mongolia, an old Tibetan Lama priest, 
Cho in den famed for his skill in curing diseases. His reputation has even spread over 
Siberia, and Russians from Kiakhta or Irkutsk are not unfrequently seen in Urga sub- 
mitting to the medical treatment of the old Mongolian Aesculapius, whose medicines 
are all derived from Tibet. It seems to me that in the majority of cases his success 
must be attributed to the healthy mountain air of Urga. 
42 Dr. Rehmann accompanied in 1805 the Russian Embassy under Count Golovkin 
to China. To the same Embassy were attached Redowsky, Adams, and ‘Helm, =. 
naturalists; the celebrated Klaproth as orientalist. As is known Golovkin was obliged — 
to return from Urga to Russia. ee 
