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Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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ible agenciescontrol disease, that men seek help from God, or the gods,in times of sickness, and that when the body is sufferingwith pain it is the special time to offer incense, prayers,and sacrifices. In China, religion and medicine areinseparably connected. Leu Chen Yang, the Chinese -ffisculapius.—nearly every doctors office there hangs a large scrollportrait of Leu Chen Yang, who was one of the eightimmortals, and the most prominent medical divinity ofthe Chinese, and though several of the gods of thisprofession outrank him, yet in the amount of practicehe receives he has eclipsed them all. He was a Hanlingraduate at Peking, and a mandarin, but retired to themountains to search for immortality. His birthday is Medical Divinities. 399 the fourth moon, fourteenth day, and so many go to histemple, that it is popularly called, * Crowd the DivineImmortal. The Governor worships him. The King of Medicine.—There are four of thesegods, or perhaps one with four titles. Desiring to cure
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Leu Chen Yang. the 10,000 different forms of disease, he tasted all kindsof herbs that he might know their virtue. In one dayhe ate seventy poisons; his body was transparent, so thatthe effects of the medicines could be seen. Hien Yuen and Chepah.—To the first of these theChinese not only ascribe the invention of clothing and 400 The Dragon, Image, a^id Demon, architecture, but also of medicine. He was the first todetermine the relations of the five viscera to the fiveelements, and describe internal and external diseases.Chepah was his assistant in medical investigations, theauthor of prescriptions, and the reputed founder of theart of healing. Dr. Fox.—Foxes are found in the northern provinces,

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