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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    works may be mentioned: Ernest Martin: Exposé des principaux passages contenus dans le Si-yuen-lu. Paris: E. Leroux 1884. 78 pp.; Herbert A. Giles: Hsi Yiian Lu, or Instructions to Coroners. China Review. 3.1874-75, 30-38, 92-99, 159-172; Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 27.1924, 59-107 (Translated from a Tao- kuang [1843] edn.); Wong/Wu, 207. The McKnight and Giles publications are available in a combined reprint: Chinese Medicine Series, 9. Taipei: Southern Materials Centre, 1982. W fx 56 11 1 title-page [yellow]: Pi-ts'ang l-shu chu-yu shih- san k'o. margin title: Chu-yu k'o. Sung Ch'un-hsi hsien-sheng chu. P'in-lien-t'ang tz'u-hang. 5Î5 m A handbook for coroners, completed about 1247, by Sung Tz'u ( chin-shih of 1217). 29.5 (18.5) X 17.5 (13) cm. Presented May 1914. Donor unknown. MEDICINE AND RELIGION m m m * m è 56 i j title-page: Pi-ts'ang Ì-shu t — # chu -yu shih-san k'o. margin title: Chu yu k'o. ÍK 9c iè ï Sung Ch'un-hsi hsien-sheng chu. ¥F H IB Hsien-yüan pei chi. Kuang-hsii i-wei [1895] ch'iu chung Shang-hai shu-chü shih-yin. 1 t'ao, 4 pen = 41; 54 fols. Ref.: Okanishi, 497 (Chu-yu shih-san k'o); Chung-kuo i-yao, 128; Chung-ita- tz'u-tien, 1 (explanation of shih-san k'o). Neither in BL nor SOAS. Spells and incantations to ward off the thirteen kinds of diseases. 12.5 (9.5) X 7.5 (6.5) cm. Burroughs Wellcome Co., Office, Shanghai, July 1910. fig. Jeu ch. 1 only = 23 fols, îffi -Ô- Iii A fa ÌR Preface: undated. Han-ku shan-jen t'i PP S chen-tzu pai-t'i. Ms. note on cover: 'This is a book of prayers or incantations used for the cure of all diseases and much believed in amongst [the Chinese].' Ref.: Cf. Courant 5724. Neither in BL nor SOAS. 24 (20) X 15.5 (13) cm. Provenance unknown.
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