Mr. Wiseman believes that Western medical terms chosen as equivalents of Chinese medical terms should be the words known to all speakers and not requiring any specialist knowledge or instrumentation to understand or identify

and strictly technical Western medical terms should be avoided regardless of their conceptual conformity to the Chinese terms. Accordingly

many inappropriate Western medical terms are selected as English equivalents by the authors of the Dictionary

and on the other hand

many ready-made appropriate Western medical terms are replaced by loan English terms with the Chinese style of word formation. The experience gained in solving the problems of translating Western medical terms into Chinese when Western medicine was first introduced to China is helpful for translating Chinese medical terms into English. However

the authors of the Dictionary adhere to their own opinions

ignoring others’ experience. The English terms thus created do not reflect the genuine meaning of the Chinese terms

but make the English glossary in chaos. The so-called true face of traditional Chinese revealed by such terms is merely the Chinese custom of word formation and metaphoric rhetoric. In other words

traditional Chinese medicine is not regarded as a system of medicine but merely some Oriental folklore.