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 the Bladder, Ureters, Reins and Guts. To these Three Regions, they assign Three sorts of Pulses in each Hand. The uppermost Pulse is governed by the radical Heat, and is therefore in its own Nature overflowing and great. The lowermost is governed by the radical Moisture, which lies deeper than the rest, and is like a Root to the rest of the Branches: the middlemost lies between them both, partakes equally of radical Heat and Moisture, and answers to the middle Region of the Body, as the uppermost and lowermost do to the other Two. By these Three Sorts of Pulses, they pretend to examine all Sorts of acute Diseases, and these also are examined Three several Ways: Diseases in the Left-Side are shewn by the Pulses of the Left-Hand, and Diseases in the Right-Side by the Pulses of the Right.'

It would be tedious to dwell any longer upon such Notions as these, which every Page in Cleyer's Book is full of: The Anatomical Figures annexed to the Tracts, which also were sent out of China, are so very whimsical, that a Man would almost believe the whole to be a Banter, if these Theories were not agreeable to the occasional Hints that may be found in the Travels of the Missionaries. This how-