222 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The porcellane ftreet is known for its fine 

 vaults, containing porcellane. In the other 

 flreets are a number of druggifts, and apothe- 

 caries, flower-makers, dyers, umbrella-makers, 

 book-binders, mirrour-makers, fmiths, taylors, 

 llioe-makers, diftillers of famfu, flone-mafons, 

 and fome goldfmiths. In the apothecaries 

 ihops (of which there are a great many) hung 

 fome flags horns on the cieling and walls, as 

 alfo a number of dried plants, unknown in 

 our country. 



I never could obferve that they mixed fe- 

 veral things together, or that they fold any 

 ele&uaries, efTences, and the like ; but only 

 fome roots, partly entire, partly cut in pieces. 

 The people bought thefe medicines without 

 prefcriptions, and cured themfelves as well as 

 they could. 



Yan-sam, or Yan-fom, is the Chinefe name of 

 a root, which is to be got in our apothecaries 

 lliops by the name of Ninfi {Fanax quinque 

 folia, Linn.) ; every ounce of it cofts at prefent 

 30 or 40 ounces of filver : the root is whitifh, 

 fomewhat like parfnips, but fcarce fo large j 

 it often divides into two (talks, in which the 



Chinefe 



