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Pharmacy  and  Chemistry, 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1  September,  1904. 
Cow  glue  and  chicken-blood  glue  are  used.  Tiger-bone  glue 
cures  rheumatism,  and  was  stated  to  do  wonders  by  the  European 
in  charge.  Tortoise-horn  glue  relieves  heat  of  blood,  dryness  of 
the  mouth  and  thirst.  Luk  Kau  (also  Lu  Chiao),  deer-horn  glue,  is 
a  tonic,  increases  the  semen. 
Bones  of  the  various  animals  are  used.  Sing  Yuen,  antelope 
horns,  relieves  the  heart,  liver  and  lungs.  Sai  Kok,  hippopotamus 
horns,  removes  the  impurities  from  the  blood,  abates  the  heat  of  the 
heart.  Kuai  Pan,  tortoise  shell,  is  a  tonic  for  the  blood  of  young 
people. 
Of  things  that  crawl  and  hop,  I  found:  the  Ki  Li  Kwai  lizard 
(frog)  was  good  for  dysentery;  Ki  She,  a  snake,  cures  rheumatism  in 
limbs  and  fingers;  Kop  Kai,  lizard,  is  an  aphrodisiac;  Ti-lung, 
earthworm,  regulates  menstrual  discharge  and  relieves  colic.  The 
bile  of  three  kinds  of  snakes  is  an  expectorant  and  carminative.  I 
also  saw  Ch'an  Su,  or  toad-spittle  cakes;  they  exercise  the  toads, 
thereby  obtaining  the  fluid  that  they  are  well  known  to  discharge, 
this  is  dried  and  formed  into  cakes  about  2  inches  across  and  % 
inch  thick,  the  cakes  are  brown  and  have  a  white  spot  in  the  centre 
from  manipulation.  Two  beautiful  jars  of  dried  frogs  are  shown. 
Some  very  fine  centipedes,  4  inches  long,  of  many  joints,  each  joint 
having  a  pair  of  legs.  The  back  of  all  joints,  except  the  head  and 
first  joint,  are  black  on  the  back,  these  are  of  a  fine  orange  tint,  like- 
wise all  the  legs  and  the  breast.  If  you  examine  the  jar  of  scorpions 
you  will  distinguish  their  form  as  that  given  in  many  patent  medi- 
cine calendars  as  part  of  the  zodiac.  These  are  not  in  as  perfect  a 
state  of  preservation  as  the  centipedes ;  are  rather  deep  brown  in 
color,  about  2  inches  long  and  almost  all  legs. 
There  is  nothing  buggy  about  the  Chinese,  still  you  find  many 
bugs  shown  as  medicine ;  such  are  beetle  skins,  Ch'an  Pui  or 
cicada  skins  ;  Chin  Chan  Hua,  locust-like  bugs ;  tree  bugs,  like 
those  flying  about  our  electric  lights ;  earth  beetles,  very  much  like 
the  humble  tumble  bug ;  fine  specimens  of  the  Chinese  blistering 
fly;  a  Hung  Paw  Mao  bug  from  Tien-tsin ;  these  are  an  inch  in 
length,  having  a  reddish  breast  and  black  back.  What  these  bugs 
are  used  for  I  did  not  find  out. 
Feng.fang  is  a  wasp's  nest,  a  jar  of  fine  quality  is  shown. 
Fossilized  remains  of  prehistoric  animals  are  also  shown.  There 
is  a  jar  of  "  fossil  shells,"  they  are  trilobites  ;  also  some  fossil  crabs 
