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1656

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

1671

#6491.9

Les secrets de la médecine des chinois, consistant en la parfaite connoissance du pouls. Envoyez de la Chine par un françois, homme de grand mérite.

The first Western book on Chinese medicine, with a few brief comments on Japanese methods. This anonymous collection of translations of early Chinese texts on pulse medicine has been variously attributed to different …

1682

#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…

1683

#6374.1

Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres…

This work by the resident physician at Deshima, the Dutch East India Company’s trading station in Nagasaki Bay, Japan, contains the first detailed description of acupuncture, and the first illustration of acu-points p…

1686

#6492.1

Clavis medica ad Chinarum doctrinam de pulsibus. Autore R.P. Michaele Boymo, e Soc. Jesu, & in China missionario. Huius operis ultra viginti annos iam sepulti fragmenta, hinc inde dispersa, collegit & in gratiam medicae facultatis in lucem Europaeam produxit Cl. Dn. Andreas Cleyerus, M.D. & Societatis Batavo-Orientalis Proto-Medicus. A quo nunc demum mittitur totius operis exemplar, e China recens allatum, & a mendis purgatum, Procuratore R.P. Philippo Copletio, Belga, e Soc. Jesu, Chinensis missionis Romam misso.

Translations of Chinese treatises on pulse medicine with illustrations of hands and wrists to illustrate pulse-taking. The texts published here are different from those published by Cleyer in No. 6492. Previously publ…

1712

#6374.11

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.

Kaempfer’s illustrated accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century. They appeared for the first time in the above work and were translated into English in his The History of…

1741 –1750

#6837

Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.

Het Amboinsche kruidboek or Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of Ambon in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, by Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a German-born soldier and botanist employed by the Dutch East India …

1774

#6835

Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku.

The first translation of any Western medical text into Japanese. "Kaitai Shinsho represented the beginning of two epoch-making developments. First and most directly Gempaku's work set in motion the modern transformati…

1813

#6975

Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.

The first book in English on the materia medica of India, and a pioneering work in the field of Indian medical history. Ainslie joined the British East India Company as an assistant surgeon in 1788 and spent the next …

1813

#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 what was t…

1829

#9450

Praktische waarnemingen over eenige Javaansche geneesmiddelen, welke niet alleen vele uitheemsche medicamenten, die thans nog van Europa naar Java moeten worden overgezonden, kunnen vervangen, maar dezelve ook tegen eenige ziekten op het eiland Java heerschende, in werkzaamheid overtreffen.

An early account of Jamu (old spelling Djamu), the traditional medicine of Indonesia, especially Java. "It is a predominantly herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, bark, f…

1851

#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 …

1863

#6492.2

La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.

The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…

1867

#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…

1874

#10127

La matière médicale chez les chinois.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1878 –1883

#7515

Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1884

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1885

#6604

Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.

From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1911

#6604.1

Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.

History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…

1913

#8974

Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913

#12743

Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.

Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929

#9247

On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.

1930

#9846

Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.

Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial University…

1932

#6493

History of Chinese medicine.

The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…

1937

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.

1937

#13501

Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.

1951 –1961

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1966

#12410

Te Rongoa Maori: Maori medicine.

"Arriving in Kaikohe (in the Far North) as a pharmacist he [the author] "passed into a new world as far as medicine was concerned." He found that customers made their own "concoctions" and were under the influence of …

1970

#6604.2

Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.

Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.

1974

#6604.3

La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.

With Z. Ohya.

1975

#9345

Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1978

#10869

Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.

1980

#6604.31

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

1980

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1981

#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…

1983

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

1985

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1988

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

1990

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1991

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1991

#7516

Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.

A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.

1998

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

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

1999

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

2003

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

2008

#12724

Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.

Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…

2009

#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…

2010

#7465

Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.