yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, 1870

John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)

A medical chemistry text from the Canton Hospital, based on Fownes and Wells. It moved to one-character names, coining new characters freely, and adopted Fryer’s principles after correspondence in 1869.

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Forms attested here (28)