Reischauer, Edwin

April 1964-November 1974 Vice Eoreign Minister, PRC Reischauer, Edwin O. 

Reischauer, Edwin O. The Japanese. Cambridge Belknap Press, 1982. 

Reischauer, Edwin 0. The Japanese. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1978. 

All this deadly experimentation however may not have been for naught. Chinese alchemists did find some mercury compounds that were excellent for getting rid of fleas and lice (soap was still a luxury in those times), and other scholars credit the richness of Chinese cuisine to the Taoist habit of experimentally eating all sorts of organic and inorganic substances. Another outcome may have been the discovery of anesthetics and other items of their tremendous pharmacopoeia. According to Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank ... 

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