1531 WANG JI (1463 – 1539)
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 manuscrip…
GMN 7148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9315
1656 BOYM, Michal Piotr (1612 – 1659)
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…
GMN 8591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10768
1671 ANONYMOUS
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 …
GMN 6491.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7994
1682 CLEYER, Andreas (1634 – 1698)
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…
GMN 6492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7995
1685 VOSSIUS, Isaak (Isaac Voss) (1618 – 1689)
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…
GMN 11718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13919
1686 BOYM, Michal Piotr (1612 – 1659)
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…
GMN 6492.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7998
1736 ASTRUC, Jean (1684 – 1766)
De morbis venereis libri sex.
A comprehensive book on the subject, including a careful review of the existing literature. Astruc stated that syphilis first appeared in Europe in 1493. The book was translated into English in 1737. Digital facsimile…
GMN 5195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7100
1774 –1780 PEYRILHE, Bernard (1735 – 1804); DUJARDIN, François (1738 – 1775)
Histoire de la chirurgie depuis son origine jusqu’a nos jours. 2 vols.
Dujardin seems to be the first European to discuss acupuncture within its historical context as an ancient remedy still found to be of practical value. His section on Chinese and Japanese medicine appears on pp. 75-10…
GMN 6374.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8318
1813 LEPAGE, François-Albin (1793 – )
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…
GMN 14178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16493
1831 TAKI, Mototane (1789 – 1827)
Iseki kō. (I Chi Kao). 8 vols.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography in Japanese of Chinese medical literature, including materia medica. The bibliography includes works for which the author had references, but could not locate copies. According t…
GMN 9490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11674
1851 HOBSON, Benjamin (1816 – 1873)
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 …
GMN 13313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15579
1862 HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.
Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…
GMN 9678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11865
1863 DABRY DE THIERSANT, Philibert (1826 – 1898); SOUBEIRAN, Jean-Léon (1827 – 1892)
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…
GMN 6492.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8000
1863 GRIJS, Carolus F. M. de (1832 – 1902)
Geregtelijke geneeskunde, uit het Chineesch vertaald.
Translation into Dutch of the 13th century Chinese text on forensic medicine entitled Xiyuan lu jizheng huizuan. de Grijs's translation was retranslated into German by Henry Breitenstein as Gerichtliche Medizin der Ch…
GMN 10531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12724
1867 WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
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…
GMN 8210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10386
1871 SMITH, Frederick Porter (1833 – 1888)
Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11842
1874 DABRY DE THIERSANT, Philibert (1826 – 1898); SOUBEIRAN, Jean-Léon (1827 – 1892)
La matière médicale chez les chinois.
Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
GMN 10127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12316
1878 –1883 GEERTS, Antonius Johannes Cornelius (1843 – 1883)
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.
GMN 7515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9687
1884 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
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…
GMN 9422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11605
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
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.
GMN 12743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14989
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.
GMN 12744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14990
1929 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947)
On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.
GMN 9247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11429
1929 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Die chinesische Medizin zu Beginn des XX. Jahrhunderts und ihr historischer Entwicklungsgang.
GMN 12741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14987
1932 WU, Lien-Teh (1879 – 1959); WONG, K. Chimin (1889 – 1972)
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…
GMN 6493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8002
1949 VEITH, Ilza (1915 – 2013)
Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.
First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…
GMN 6878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9042
1962 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Les reflets de la sphygmologie chinoise dans la médecine occidentale.
GMN 7517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9689
1979 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.
The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …
GMN 8128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10304
1980 NEEDHAM, Joseph Terence Montgomery (1900 – 1995); LU, Gwei-djen (1904 – 1991)
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
GMN 6374.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8335
1981 PARENNIN, Dominique (1665 – 1741); SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991); LEE, Francis Ruey-Shuang (1929 – 2008)
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…
GMN 6958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9123
1982 KAPTCHUK, Ted J. (1947 – )
The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.
GMN 9365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11548
1985 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
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…
GMN 6495.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8014
1986 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.
GMN 9419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11602
1988 HOIZEY, Dominique; HOIZEY, Marie-Joseph
Histoire de la médecine chinoise.
GMN 9707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11894
1989 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.
GMN 9730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11917
1997 ZHOU, Chuncai; HAN, Yazhou
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.
GMN 9364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11547
1997 HARPER, Donald J.
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.
"Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…
GMN 14365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16697
1998 HARPER, Donald J.
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and Study by Donald J. Harper.
Detailed historical analysis and English translation of medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 BCE and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, representing Chinese medical traditions from the 4th to 2nd ce…
GMN 7143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9310
1998 SHOU-ZHONG, Yang
The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.
GMN 8336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10512
1999 MITCHELL, Craig; CHANG, Chung-Ching; YE, Feng
Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.
GMN 8337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10513
1999 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – ); KOVACS, Jürgen
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…
GMN 10093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12282
2000 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China. Historical artifacts and images.
GMN 7045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9212
2003 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text.
GMN 6879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9043
2003 GRANT, Joanna
A Chinese physician: Wang Ji and the "Stone Mountain medical case histories".
A study of Wang Ji's Shishan yian (Stone Mountain medical case histories) first published in print in 1531.
GMN 7147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9314
2003 SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
A very wide-ranging selection of essays
GMN 9746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11934
2004 CHEN, John K.; CHEN, Tina T.
Chinese medical herbology and pharmacology.
This book, which extends to nearly 1200 pages, and represents the work of numerous experts, is the most comprehensive modern treatise on the subject of which I am aware.
GMN 9382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11565
2005 CULLEN, Christopher; LO, Vivienne; ET AL
Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.
GMN 7146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9313
2005 BARNES, Linda L. (1953 – )
Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the west to 1848.
GMN 9478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11662
2008 HANSON, Marta E.
"Hand mnemonics in classical Chinese medicine: Texts, earliest images, and arts of memory," Festschrift issued in honor of Nathan Sivin, Asia Major series 3, 21.1, 325-357.
GMN 9489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11673
2009 GOLDSCHMIDT, Asaf Moshe
The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.
GMN 7149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9316
2011 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – ); TESSENOW, Hermann
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.
GMN 8340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10516