国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

> > > >
カラー New!IIIFカラー高解像度 白黒高解像度 PDF   日本語 English
0185 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 / 185 ページ(カラー画像)

New!引用情報

doi: 10.20676/00000213
引用形式選択: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR読み取り結果

 

CH. LXI RECORDS OF SECTIONAL COMMAND 125

to a sort of medical note-book (Fig. 119, 8).   Some of

them contain ` case records ' and prescriptions for particular patients, others general recipes for men or ailing animals, mostly with special mention of the physicians with whom they originated. As a sample, I may mention the record left by the medical attendant ` Mr. An-kuo ' of his twentieth consultation in the sad case of ` Mr. An Tien-hui,' who, having been benumbed with cold and in consequence tumbled out of his car, had injured himself internally, and who even after thirty days of treatment still suffered in his chest and extremities.

Of the great mass of records, which comprise chiefly reports, orders, and miscellaneous memos of military administration along the Limes, it is impossible to

11      mention here more than a few. Thus, in a ` circular to
the posts of the Yü-mên Barrier,' a sectional commander regrets to acknowledge the absence of certain soldiers at the time of the official inspection, and gives due warning of the punishments to be awarded in such cases.

!      The ` I-tsou Company ' here specified appears to have
garrisoned this post right through the period covered by

the records.   Elsewhere we hear of difficulties about
effective signalling, the distribution of duties among the men at the actual watch-posts, and such like.

A very interesting find, the archaeological importance of which has only been realized since M. Chavannes' interpretation, was a narrow strip of strongly woven cream-coloured silk bearing a line of Chinese characters

inked in. This states precisely the length, weight, and price of a bale of silk, from the edge of which it had been torn off. The name of the place of manufacture, Yen-ch'êng, a locality in Shan-tung, serves to fix the date of its production at the close of the first, or in the early part of the second, century A.D. But what I greeted with particular interest is the statement there made of the width of the silk piece, viz. two feet and two inches. We

IS   know that the Chinese foot, with its decimal division into

ten inches, has varied very considerably under succeeding dynasties. But when at the British Museum I came to measure up this very strip of silk with the bootmaker's