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6th. On the top of the stem denoting the food (diet, meat, and drink or potion) 

 of the patient, there are the enumeration of such, as : 14 in respect to wind ; 12 to 

 bile; and 9 to phlegm. 



7th. On the top of the stem of the conduct of life, 6. 



8th. On the top of the stem of physic nine tastes and nine efficacies are enume- 

 rated, together 18 ; 3 kinds of soup or broth ; 5 kinds of medical butter or sirup ; 

 4 kinds of potions ; 4 kinds of powders ; 2 kinds of pills ; 5 kinds of powdered 

 aromatics ; 9 sorts of depuratory application. Total, =50 kinds of physic. 



9th. On the top of physical (or chirurgical) operations, 7 leafy branches. 



A summary exhibition of the above specified leaves : 



1. On the trunk denoting the place and ground of diseases, there are 188 leaves. 



2. On that denoting the symptoms, 38. 



3. On that denoting the manner of curing, there are 98 leaves. Altogether 

 making 224. 



There are two blossoms : health and a long life. 



There are three fruits: moral perfection (or good moral*), wealth, and hap- 

 piness. 



These are the contents of the six chapters of the first part of this medical tract. 



Second Part. 



There are four things to be treated of in the doctrine of curing or 

 healing : 1, What is to be cured or healed ? 2, With what is it to be 

 cured ? 3, In what manner is it to be cured ? 4, By whom is it to be 

 cured ? 



1st Chapter. — With respect to the first question, What is to be cured ? the 

 answer is : the disease in the human body. 2, By what means : By diet or 

 regular food, exercise, medicament, and by chirurgical operation. 3, In what 

 manner is it to be cured ? — so that the patient recovering from his sickness, may 

 remain long alive. To this place belongs the examination of the symptoms, the 

 rules of curing, and the manner in which the cure is performed. The contents of 

 this part of the treatise are reduced to four roots, and to 11 branches or minor 

 parts. 



2nd Chapter. — Cure is ordained for the well-being of the body. The origin or 

 generation of the body. Cause, and accessory causes thereof. Tokens or signs 

 of birth. 



The cause of the generation of the body is stated to be : the father's seed, the 

 mother's blood, and the arising of consciousness. If the first be predominant, 

 there will be born a son ; if the second, a daughter ; if both are equal, then a her- 

 maphrodite. Should it happen that the blood be formed into two masses, then 

 twins will be born. 



Out of the semen are formed: the bone, the brain, and the skeleton of the 

 body. Out of the mother's blood are generated the flesh, blood, heart, with the 

 other four vital parts, (lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys,) and the six vessels or veins. 

 From the soul or vital principle arises consciousness through the several organs. 



After the body has been thus conceived, the cause of its increase is in the two 

 veins on the right and left sides of the womb, in the small vessel containing the 

 mother's blood for menstruation, and in the chyle formed from the mother's 

 food, which successively descending into the womb, concurs to the coagulation 



