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not only judge of the fpecies and nature of the dlfeafc, but ap- 

 ply their remedy according to the fymptoms it exhibits. I refer 

 to Du Halde *, for the long but curious account of the pra^ice. 

 They were well acquainted with the circulation of the blood, 

 long before the Europeans attained that knowlege. As they 

 know nothing of anatomy, it muft be by reafoning on the force 

 and adion of the pulfe. They bleed, even with a bit of broken 

 china. 



In-oculation. They had the knowlege of inoculation a great many years 

 ago ; it is a difputed point whether the- Turks (from whom we 

 learned the falutary art) received it from the Cbinefe, by means 

 of the Armenian caravans, or whether the fame people might 

 not have communicated it to the Cbinefe\ certain it is that they 

 have long been in pofTcflion of the method ; and the emperor 

 Kam-hi made a noble ufe of it, fending fkilful perfons into 

 'Tartar)', and other parts of his dominions, to inoculate the 

 children of his Tartarian fubjedls, and others ; the diftemper 

 in every part of the empire being dreaded to the higheft degree, 

 making the fame havoc among thefe eaftern people, as the 

 plague in the weftern world. 



Prixting. '^'^^ "^"^^ of printing was invented under the emperor Ming- 



Tfong, about the year of our Lord 904, being above five hundred 

 years before it was dilcovered in Europe. They trace the types 

 through the written copy on blocks of wood ; fo never have 

 occafion to break the prefs, as we do in our quarter of the 

 globe. 



Paper. The manufaclure of paper was originally difcovered by Tfay^ 



* Vol. ii. p. 183. 



