Catalogue of Chinese books and manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Hartmut Walravens ; introduction by Nigel Allan.

  • Walravens, Hartmut.
Date:
1994
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Credit: Catalogue of Chinese books and manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Hartmut Walravens ; introduction by Nigel Allan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Ii ä# » 8 ï H m ¥ m 3 II I Another edition in larger format. caption title : Yü-tsuan l-tsung chin- chien. Fragment: only pen (= ch.) 62.66.67.71.72.73.74.75.76. n.d. Red stamp on cover. 10 1/p 25 (18.5) X 15.5 (13.5) cm. Presented by Dr Wu Lien-teh, Harbin, China, May 1914. 3 mi I title-page : Yü-tsuan l-tsung chin-chien. Red title-page with dragon ornament. Margin: Sao-yeh shan-fang Blocks cut in autumn of Kuang-hsü 9 (=1883). Bound in Chinese stitched volumes: 8 volumes = ch. 1-60 4 volumes = ch. 1-16 wai-k'o (Tp.: Yü- tsuan Wai-k'o) 2 volumes = ch. 1-14 hsü-pien 23.5 (18) X 15.5 (13) cm. Presented by Dr Wenyon, March 1921. 4 I title-slip : Liu k'o chun-sheng Shanghai: T'u-shu chi-ch'eng yin-shu-chü 1892 (Kuang-hsü 18). compiler : Wang K'en-t'ang it [tzu: Yü-t'ai, sobriquet: nien-hsi chü-shih; 1549-1613]. Altogether 44 ch. First edition 1602-1608. The present one is based upon the 1793 edition. Ref.: San-pai, 370-372; Wylie, 100; Cbung-i ta-tz'u-tien , 138; Ch'ü Wan-li, 256 (Wan-li edn.); Chung-i jen-ming tz'u- tien , 50. SOAS: c .400 .c .3 [edn. 1749?] BL: 15252 .c .1 [revised by Ch'eng Yung- p'ei, edn. 1793] m m mfämx i tb Ä- B fö * SBPK: 33942 (reprint. Shanghai 1958) The six parts of this collection have individual title-pages: a) Cheng-chih chun-sheng. 8 ch. Preface dated: jen-chen [ 1892?], Kuang- chou. Author's preface ( tzu-hsü ): 1602 (Wan-li 30). Postscript ( hou-hsü): 1793 (Ch'ien-lung 58), by Ch'eng Yung-p'ei. b) Lei-fang. Margin title: Lei-fang chun-sheng. Caption: Tsa-ping cheng-chih lei-fang. Chin-t'an Wang Ken-t'ang chi. 8 ch. c) Han-k'o. Margin title: Shang-han chun-sheng. Author's preface [tzu-hsü): 1604 (Wan-li 32). 8 ch. d) Wai-k'o. Margin title: Wai-k'o chun-sheng. Author's preface (tzu-hsü): 1608 (Wan-li 36). 6 ch. e) Nü-k'o. Margin title: Nü-k'o chun-sheng. Author's preface (tzu-hsü): 1607 (Wan-li 35). 5 ch. f) Yu-k'o. Margin title: Yu-k'o chun-sheng. Author's preface (tzu-hsü): 1607 (Wan-li 35). 9 ch. Altogether 48 pen. Wang K'en-t'ang, one of the famous doctors of the Ming dynasty, graduated in 1589. His Cheng-chih chun-sheng, Principles and Practice of Medicine, was completed in 1597-1598 and became a standard handbook. He continued adding to it, and so in 1604 Shan-han chun-sheng, Principles of Damages by Cold, and Yang- i chun-sheng, Principles of Surgery, were