. Annals of medical history. Hsus supervision, is piled up between theminor shrines (Fig. 3). The books areunique and of great value, but no specialcare is taken to guard them. They are kepton the second floor of a building con-structed almost entirely of wood. Perhapsthe reason why they have lasted so long isthat they have been so completely forgot-ten. Certainly the foreign troops who lootedPeking in 1900 would have paid a visit tothe White Cloud Temple had they knownof the treasures that it contains. The High Priest (Chen Yu Kuen) fullyappreciates the desirability of having thebooks reprint
. Annals of medical history. Hsus supervision, is piled up between theminor shrines (Fig. 3). The books areunique and of great value, but no specialcare is taken to guard them. They are kepton the second floor of a building con-structed almost entirely of wood. Perhapsthe reason why they have lasted so long isthat they have been so completely forgot-ten. Certainly the foreign troops who lootedPeking in 1900 would have paid a visit tothe White Cloud Temple had they knownof the treasures that it contains. The High Priest (Chen Yu Kuen) fullyappreciates the desirability of having thebooks reprinted; but he is a wise old manand declined the offer of the CommercialPress in Shanghai because he knew thatif the books ever left Peking he wouldnever see them again. The Commercial Press is now opening an office in Pekingand President Hsu is reported to be takingan active interest in the negotiations. Theidea is to print one hundred copies ofeach of the books at a total cost of about$400,000, Mexican, or, at the present rate. Fig. 4. A white tiger inhabits Fig. 5. A turtle and snakethe lungs. reside in the gall-bladder. of exchange (March, 1921), of $180,000,United States currency. But plans miscarryin China and we shall have reason to bethankful if the library continues to bespared from looting and from fire, andremains accessible to those who really careto use it. We examined the books in the dim lightof the temple on one of the altars beforethe images. None of the drawings is in-tended as acupuncture charts or as guidesfor the application of moxa. The centralidea of this perverted Taoism is attention is paid to animals. TheWhite Ck)ud Temple is, in fact, an asylumfor okl and decrepit pigs and for certainkinds of birds which are kept in comfort Taoist Ideas of Human Anatomy 305 until they die. Each of the six organs of thehuman body is thought to be inhabited bya certain animal as ilhistrated in a book ofthe Sung Dynasty, whose author has chosento remain anonym
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