The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, custom and social institutions connected therewith (1892)
Groot, J. J. M. de (Jan Jakob Maria), 1854-1921 · Leyden : E. J. Brill · leaf 206
fever, against which China, for lack of proper medicines, is sohelpless, and even totally desperate should it be intermittent, sacri-fices are ofiered according to certain methods, a knowledge of whichis conveyed by cheap handbooks in various editions, compilationsfrom which illiterate men and… … exorcism, etc. Fuhkien editions give a series of thirty prescriptions,each for one and the. same day in every month. Every prescriptionstates, that if on the day for which it is writtenany one catches fever combined witli head-ache,vomiting, diarrhoea, debility, loss of appetite, orother such…
