[26] One of these books, Nuei-King, is said to have been written twenty-seven centuries before the Christian era, by the Emperor Houang-ty, the founder of Chinese medicine.
[27] See Bouillet, work quoted at p. 31.
[28] Dabry, op. cit., p. x (introduction), pp. 1, 2, 4, 10, 11.
[29] This author wrote toward the end of the seventeenth century; one of his works is entitled De Acupunctura.
[30] Dabry, op. cit., p. 424.
[31] See Histoire de la Chirurgie depuis son origine, par MM. Dujardin et Peyrihle, Paris, 1774 to 1780.
[32] London, 1811.
[33] Die Zahnheilkunde, etc., 1851, p. 347.
[34] J. Bontii, De medicina Indorum, 1642, lib. iv.
[35] Carabelli, Handbuch der Zahnheilkunde, 1844, i, 8.