These Chinese views reached Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and there is a very elaborate description of them in Floyer's well-known book.( 27) And the idea of harmony in the pulse is met with into the eighteenth century.
(27) Sir John Floyer: The Physician's Pulse Watch, etc., London, 1707.
Organotherapy was as extensively practiced in China as in Egypt.

Parts of organs, various secretions and excretions are very commonly used.

One useful method of practice reached a remarkable development, viz., the art of acupuncture--the thrusting of fine needles more or less deeply into the affected part.

There are some 388 spots on the body in which acupuncture could be performed, and so well had long experience taught them as to the points of danger, that the course of the arteries may be traced by the tracts that are avoided.

The Chinese practiced inoculation for smallpox as early as the eleventh century.
Even the briefest sketch of the condition of Chinese medicine leaves the impression of the appalling stagnation and sterility that may afflict a really intelligent people for thousands of years.