1683 TEN RHIJNE, Willem (1647 – 1700)
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…
GMN 6374.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8316
1712 KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
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…
GMN 6374.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8317
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
1774 KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689 – 1745); SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田 玄白) (1733 – 1817)
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…
GMN 6835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8999
1813 MITANI, Soshu (Koki) (1774 – 1823)
Kaitai hatsumo [Explanation of Human Anatomy]. 5 vols.
The first Japanese exposition of the whole system of human anatomy, based on original observation. The work includes the records of three dissections performed in Kyoto in 1783, 1798, and 1802. “A Japanese treatise on…
GMN 13214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15477
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
1885 WHITNEY, Willis Norton (1855 – 1918)
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.
GMN 6604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8529
1911 FUJIKAWA, Yū (1865 – 1940)
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…
GMN 6604.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8530
1930 BÄLZ, Erwin (1849 – 1914); BÄLZ, Erwin Toku (1889 – )
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…
GMN 9846 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12034
1961 BARTLETT, Harley Harris (1886 – 1960); SHOHARA, Hide
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
GMN 10949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13145
1964 MESTLER, Gordon E.
An index to selected Japanese medical literature of Pre-Meiji times.
This is an index to a series of 5 offprints by Mestler entitled "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association…
GMN 10948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13144
1969 SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田 玄白) (1733 – 1817)
Dawn of Western science in Japan. Rangaku Kotohajime by Genpaku Sugita translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto, supervised by Tomio Ogata.
GMN 7046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9213
1970 BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
GMN 6604.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8531
1974 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.
With Z. Ohya.
GMN 6604.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8532
1980 BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)
When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.
Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.
GMN 6604.31 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8533
1991 VERBURGT, J. W.
Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.
GMN 7514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9686
1991 BEUKERS, Harm; LUYENDIJK-ELSHOUT, A. M.
Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.
A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.
GMN 7516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9688
2018 TERAZAWA, Yuki
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
GMN 10645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12838
