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Rh the shoulders, which resembled the human face. It gave him no pain, and his general health was good One day he playfully poured a drop of wine into the thirsty looking mouth of his left hand man;&mdash;whereupon the ulcer face reddened and swelled. He then tried it, with various eatables, and found that when he fed the tumor it expanded, and when the supplies were stopped it settled down. At the recommendation of a celebrated doctor he administered all sorts of medicines to the omniverous tumor, mineral, vegetable and animal. Nothing made any difference with it until he gave it some Pei-mu.&mdash;Pleased with its action, he thrust a culm of mat grass into the mouth, and through that tube introduced an infusion of the root. In a little while the brows fell off, the eyes closed and shrivelled up, and so did the mouth, and, after a short time, the image was effaced entirely. Our author in detailing the case, which must not be taken as a sample of Chinese medical writing, says he is really unable to tell what disease that was;&mdash;nor can I."

3&mdash;Page 2.&mdash;As stated further on,&mdash;Measures of all kinds vary in different districts, and time did not afford us an opportunity of testing the content of a Ching in Fungwha. According to the table of capacities furnished by Gutzlaff in his "China opened" Chapter XIV;&mdash;a shing equals 31 cubic punts&mdash;a punt being the tenth part of a Chinese covid. This would give the content of a shing (ching and shing being identical we presume) at a little under three quarters of an English pint.

Gutzlaff says.&mdash;

The measure of contents, which is seldom used, nearly every