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some connexion will be found to have existed between the 
medicine of the Hindoos and that of the Chinese. 
On the subject of Chinese Medicine, we have a short 
notice, and another on the Chinese Treatment of Paralysis, 
in the Calcutta Medical Transactions, Vol. I., (p. 146), where 
it is stated that the Science of Medicine may be said to 
have commenced with Chang-ke (about A.D. 229) ; for 
all works before that (said to be dated 189 and 1105 years 
B.C.) treat of medicine, without giving prescriptions. As 
this is extracted from a new compilation made by order of 
the Emperor in 1739, it is difficult, from the necessary 
changes in arrangement and the heading of chapters, 
to be able to trace the sources whence they may have been 
derived, or where they communicated information. But 
it may be remarked as important, that small-pox is 
noticed, both in this and the Tibetan work, in conjunc- 
tion with infectious diseases in general. More recently, 
Mr. Gutzlaff, Missionary in China, has in the Proceed- 
ings of the Asiatic Society, part vii. p. 154, given a short 
view of a celebrated work, in forty volumes, on Chinese 
Medicine, which is called " Ching che chun ching," i.e. 
"Approved marking line of Medical Practice." Of this, 
seven volumes consist of Nosology, Tsa-ching ; eight of 
Pharmacology, Luy-fang; five of Pathology, Shang-han; 
six of Surgery, Wae-ka ; and the remaining volumes treat 
of the diseases of Women and Children. The Chinese 
Pharmacopoeia is described as being very extensive ; almost 
every shrub, leaf or root, being adopted as an article of 
Materia Medica. Among many indigenous products, of 
which we may get a pretty accurate idea from the drawings 
which have been published, as well as from the collection 
of Chinese Materia Medica, in the possession of the 
College of Physicians; there are others, which they 
import from foreign countries. Among the former may be 
