A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom; . - <ID s r- o ^.. CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA 37 them themselves or caused them to be sold by Medicine Guild in China to-day performs much thesame work, and its origin is long anterior to the Greek Rhizo-tomoi. If, then, Chinese pharmacology is to-day severalcenturies behind that of the Occident, there was a time when itwas equally far in advance. Marco Polo makes many referencesto the value of
A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom; . - <ID s r- o ^.. CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA 37 them themselves or caused them to be sold by Medicine Guild in China to-day performs much thesame work, and its origin is long anterior to the Greek Rhizo-tomoi. If, then, Chinese pharmacology is to-day severalcenturies behind that of the Occident, there was a time when itwas equally far in advance. Marco Polo makes many referencesto the value of Chinese drugs. For example : All over themountains of the province of Tangut, rhubarb is found ingreat abundance, and thither merchants come to buy it, andcarry it thence all over the world. All parts of the Chinese Empire contribute something to thenative pharmacy, but, with the exception of ginseng, cassia-bark, camphor, and areca-nut, nearly all the more highlyvalued drugs come from the forests and scrub-clad highlandsof the west. The famous drug, ginseng, the root of AraliaquinquefoUa, comes from Corea and Manchuria, and the bestquality sells for its weight in gold. To the Chinese this drugis the
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