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Seite 7 - Pun-tsaou, fig. 26. — It occurs in the province of Yunnan ; probably also in Burmah, as it has been shipped in considerable quantity from Moulmein. Ainslie states that it is exported from China to India.* Orpiment is resorted to by the Chinese in cases of ague, but compounded in a manner so absurd as to render the dose extremely uncertain or even a non-entity.
Seite 38 - Currey and myself last year (1861) and published in the Linnean Transactions. The opinion there expressed is that these tuber-like bodies are an altered state of the root of the tree, probably occasioned by the presence of a fungus, the mycelium of which traverses, disintegrates or even obliterates the wood and bark. This mycelium appears under the microscope in the form of fine threads usually more or less mixed with bodies of irregular shape, somewhat resembling...
Seite 14 - After repeated crystallizations from alcohol, xanthoxylin may be obtained in a state of purity, and then presents the form of large crystals of a fine silky lustre, insoluble in water, but readily soluble in alcohol or ether. It has a very slight odour of stearine, and a slightly aromatic taste. It distils unchanged, its fusing point before and after distillation remaining the same, namely 176° F., and its solidifying point 172.4° F. Its composition is C(0 Us O«.
Seite 10 - Tan-sha (cinnabar) is subjected to heat, it produces, mercury. After passing through other changes, it returns to its original form. It differs widely, therefore, from vegetable substances, and hence it has the power of making men live for ever, and raising them to the rank of the genii. He who knows this doctrine, is he not far above common men ? In the world there are few that know it, and many that cavil at it. Many do not even know that mercury conies out of cinnabar.
Seite 10 - Society* has pointed ont that alchemy was pursued in China long previous to its being known in Europe, — in fact, that for two centuries prior to the Christian era, and for four or more subsequent, the transmutation of the base metals into gold, and the composition of an elixir of immortality, were questions ardently studied by the Chinese. It is moreover a matter of history that intercourse between China and Persia •was frequent both before and after the...
Seite 10 - Many do not even know that mercury comes out of cinnabar. When told, they still refuse to believe it, saying that cinnabar is red, and how can it produce a white substance? They say also that cinnabar is a stone, — that stones when heated turn to ashes, and how then can anything else be expected of cinnabar? They cannot even reach this simple truth, much less can it be said of them, that they have been instructed in the doctrine of the genii.
Seite 26 - To this description I may add that, compared with the Large round China Cardamom the capsules in question are more wrinkled in a network manner, more fragile and thin, and (from immaturity ?) much less adherent to the mass of seeds ; they are more globose, not triangular at the base, but flat, or even depressed like an apple. Their colour, in all the specimens I have seen, is a brownish-yellow. I cannot confirm M. Guibourt's remark as to the highly aromatic properties of the seeds. This Cardamom,...
Seite 43 - Sanburii, have not yet been discovered. If to these be added two described by M. de Koninck, the total number of Chinese Devonian types at present, known will amount to ten species, viz. : — 3 of Spirifer, 2 of Hhynckonella, 1 Productus, 1 Crania, 1 Cornulites, 1 Spirorbit, and 1 Aulopora.
Seite 7 - Sin-shih ; Arsenious acid, also called Plh-sin and Hung-pe. — Of the specimens which I have received, some are apparently a natural mineral, constituting a translucent, crystalline mass, varying in colour from pure white to a yellowish-brown or grey.
Seite 22 - It is probably one of the species of Gardenia, the fruits of which are used by the Chinese for their colouring properties. Their splendid yellow colour "is due to a body named crocine which appears to be identical with the polychroite of saffron.