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Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.

Lemgo, Germany: Meyer, 1712.

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 Japan, 2 vols., London, 1727. Other fascicules of this work concern Japanese plants. Digital facsimile of the 1712 edition from ETH Zurich at this link.
Translated into English by Willem Floor and Colette Ouahes as Exotic attractions in Persia, 1684-1688: Travels & observations. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018.



Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Acupuncture (Western References), BOTANY, BOTANY › Medical Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, Japanese Medicine, Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientsts
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