Eureka Reporter | 1904-06-17 | Page 3 | Chinese Belief in Pills

chinese belief in pills though the pin habit is said by medical journals to couse more dys than it cures it has at rate the sanction of antiquity in an article which dr H L a brit ish naval surgeon on the china sta tion contributes to one of the medical journals he remarks that doses in the chinese pharmacopoeia are invariably large and the pills are taken by the hundreds the chinese he adds pos sess an enormous veneration tor an and besides powdered deer s horns to promote longevity and tiger s bones to promote bravery desp them selves with fossil ivory fossil crabs and shells ancient boot and water in which a few copper coins of an early dynasty have been boiled