[367] Dr. Hobson mentions a case at Shanghai where he was called upon to examine a child well-nigh dead with spurious hydrocephalus. Upon investigation he found that the nurse, “a young healthy-looking woman, with breasts full of milk to overflowing,” had “been in the habit of selling her milk in small cupfuls to old persons, under the idea of its highly nutritive properties, and was actually poisoning the child dependent on it.” The nurse being promptly changed, the infant recovered almost immediately.—Journal N. C. Br. R. A. Soc. New Series, Vol. I., p. 51.
[368] Archdeacon Gray, China, Vol. II., p. 76.
[369] Mémoires conc. les Chinois, Tome XI., pp. 78 ff. C. C. Coffin in the Atlantic Monthly, 1869, p. 747. Doolittle’s Vocabulary, Part III., No. XVIII. M. Henri Cordier in the Journal des Débats, Nov. 19, 1879. Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. II., pp. 11 and 26.
[371] Social Life of the Chinese, Chapters II. and III.; China, Chap. VII.; also Fourteen Months in Canton, by Mrs. Gray.
[372] Chinese Repository, Vols. IV., p. 568, and X., pp. 65-70; Annales de la Foi, No. XL., 1835.
[373] Voyages à Peking, Tome II., p. 283.
[374] Chinese Repository, Vol. I., p. 293.
[375] China, Chap. VII.
[376] Doolittle’s Handbook, Vol. III., p. 660, gives a list of names collected at Fuhchau, which are applicable to other provinces.