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Works Volume 38; Essays and Miscellany. 1890

Works Volume 38; Essays and Miscellany. 1890

Works Volume 38; Essays and Miscellany. 1890 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Works Volume 38; Essays and Miscellany. 1890
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Number of Pages: 242 pages
Published Date: 22 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236449771
File Name: Works.Volume.38;.Essays.and.Miscellany..1890.pdf
Download Link: Works Volume 38; Essays and Miscellany. 1890
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... matches under the cover of night. In China they are dreaded as much as here, but are permitted to wander around in bands to scatter terror and extort tribute. Wherever Chinamen have immigrated leprosy appears to have developed. On the Sandwich Islands the scourge carried off large numbers. The white race cannot be regarded as exempt from the contagion, for English sailors have several times been stricken, and it has prevailed in Lombardy. In view of our intimate relation with the race which washes our clothes, manufactures our cigars, and cooks our food, a certain degree of apprehension is justifiable. In case of a slight indisposition the Chinaman is content to seek that panacea for physical and mental ills, the opium pipe; but if the symptoms assume the least complication he hurries to seek more reliable nostrums; and to judge by the quantity he consumes, he is evidently not in favor of homoeopathic doses, even if that system is upheld in other respects. The first recourse is probably to Wah To, God of Health, whom he approaches with offerings and propitiatory rites, asking him to designate a remedy or a doctor. The framer of the oracle has not been a whit less Essays And Miscellany 25 zealous of the influence of his god than Pythia of the Olympian deity, and gives only the vaguest of answers, unless the bribes of some particular member of the Esculapian fraternity have overcome the scruples of the priest, and make him designate with greater exactness who the healer is in whom the gods delight. When gods and god-keepers must have money for their favors, we should have more charity for men. The more prudent sufferer applies directly to one of the 280 works containing the medical lore of the celestial kingdom, with full description of herbs and drugs, thei...

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