ment about 300 years ago, contains formulas setting forth the uses 

 of Chaulmoogra Oil. This is but one illustration of the fact the Chi- 

 nese possessed knowledge of medicinal remedies far in advance of 

 westerners and that many of the so-called "new discoveries" in West- 

 ern Medical Science have their origin in Chinese knowledge and usages. 



THE COMPASS AND CHINESE HERBAL REMEDIES 



The compass was invented by the Chinese many thousands of years 

 ago; yet today, according to the statement of Lieutenants L. J. Mait- 

 land and A. J. Hegenberger, published July 12, 1927, in the San Fran- 

 cisco Chronicle, the compass "beats all new instruments." 



Not only do the world's aviators use this Chinese invention to guide 

 them, but it is also used by steamships, warships, engineering works, 

 and even in getting direction for long range guns. All nations, great 

 and small, use this invention to help them find their way in the world. 



Now that the world is gradually awakening to the value of Chinese 

 Herbs, the young Chinese students in the Medical Colleges are fre- 

 quently asked by the doctors under whom they study what one or an- 

 other kind of herb is used for. While these medical men are deeply in- 

 terested in the scraps of information thus gleaned, they do not realize 

 that these Chinese students are not herbalists and that they know only 

 a little of but a very few kinds of the herbs that are used by the Chi- 

 nese to relieve human suffering. 



Moreover, these few kinds of herbs in the hands of Occidental doc- 

 tors are comparable to what a few selections from English Literature 

 would be to a Chinese who had just learned his A B C's. Even though 

 these medical men might learn the uses of hundreds of kinds of Chinese 

 Herbs, yet, because of their lack of fundamental and experimental 

 knowledge of herb treatment, they would soon forget what they had 

 learned, and the five thousand formulas that have been worked out by 

 ancient Chinese Herbalists would be valueless to them. 



While the use of the Chinese invention, the compass, has never been 

 attacked and prohibited because of jealousy, the practice of Chinese 

 Herbs is continually under fire, for the reason that practitioners in other 

 schools of healing realize that the marvelous success of the herb treat- 

 ments has shorn them of much of their business. The Fong Wan Herb- 

 alist, however, has been able to afford relief to so many people whose 

 cases had been pronounced hopeless, that he has not only withstood 



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