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China under the Empress Dowager

Note 124 — XXV THE VALEDICTORY MEMORIAL OF JUNG LU

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Ginseng, the specific remedy of the Chinese pharmacopœia for debility, supposed to possess certain magical qualities when grown in shapes resembling the human form or parts thereof. The best kind, supplied as tribute to the Throne, grows wild in Manchuria and Corea.

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