Note 78 — LXXVII. SINGULAR CASE OF OPHTHALMIA.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
These are about as big as a cheese-plate and attached to a short stick, from which hangs suspended a small button of metal in such a manner as to clash against the face of the gong at every turn of the hand. The names and descriptions of various instruments employed by costermongers in China would fill a good-sized volume. return to text