Facets

1851 CE

#13313

Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]

The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …

1813 CE

#14178

Recherches historiques sur la médecine des chinois.

The first Western history of Chinese medicine. Lepage, a pupil of Pierre Sue, was a friend and colleague of pioneer sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. In his medical thesis Lepage presented an overview of wha…

2009 CE

#11825

Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.

"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…

1867 CE

#8210

Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…

2015 CE

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

1999 CE

#8337

Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.

1531 CE

#7148

Shishan yian (Stone Mountain medical case histories) (The Shishan medical records) 石山醫案.

This work, in three juan with a supplement and in three volumes, was written by Wang Ji (1463–1539), physician and member of a Ming dynasty medical family, and originally published in manuscript in 1520. The man…

1913 CE

#12744

Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.

2011 CE

#9488

Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.

1682 CE

#6492

Specimen medicinae Sinicae.

One of the earliest studies of Chinese medicine published in the West. (See also Nos. 6472.10 et seq.). Cleyer edited these translations of Chinese medical texts, reproducing a series of 30 plates dealing with Chinese…

2021 CE

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.

1980 CE

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

2015 CE

#11196

The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.

1998 CE

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

2009 CE

#7149

The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.

1997 CE

#9364

The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.

Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.

2014 CE

#14355

The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.

1981 CE

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1998 CE

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1982 CE

#9365

The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.

1685 CE

#11718

Variarum observationum liber.

Vossius, a Dutch scholar and manuscript collector, was one of the first European writers to suggest that the Chinese had anticipated William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. In his chapter on Chines…