Abstract
At what point in history did the Western form of a particular science overtake the Chinese form? When did the two forms fuse? The time elapsing between the first emergence of a particular natural science in its modern form in Europe, and its fusion with the Chinese form, to grow into the universal œcumenical body of the modern natural sciences, is proportional to its biological content. In the study of the human and the animal body in health and disease the process is as yet far from accomplished.
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