The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[oshfdk]

I found only one instance of "xiǎo'ér bǎi èrshí" (line 54 of the third section 《下卷》).  The text you quoted seems to have been pasted several times (and lost the "x").

I'm not sure if we are talking about the same piece, but I don't think there are any obvious problems (e.g., pasting several times) with the transcription I posted. YÀO YĪBǍI ÈRSHÍ is 藥一百二十, which I can read, it is medicine+one+hundred+two+ten and it visually appears at the very beginning of lines 1, 2 and 3 of the text (the introduction, as you called it). 藥 is the Traditional Chinese version of 药, which is one of the characters in the word "pharmacy", so it's used all over the place in many Asian countries.