China.- Medicine.- Chaungshang jingyian [The experience of ulcers], 16 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 10 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single black fishtail motifs, single-line borders, c.273 illustrations, each leaf with some conservation support, many fore-edge folds with strengthening and restoration, the occasional other loss, generally small but a few times more extensive, with text sometimes supplied in neat manuscript where lacking, the occasional light stain, bound and stitched Japanese-style into modern blue wrappers, housed in 2 cloth wrap-around cases with clasps, 8vo, China, Haoranlou publisher, Kangxi 56, Qing Dynasty [1717].*** The rare second edition of this work on ulcers and cutaneous complaints, ascribed to Dou Hanqing (1196-1280), a Taishi ('Grand Preceptor and Grand Academician') of the Southern Song Dynasty. Dou, originally an ulcer doctor, obtained his title for curing the crown prince's disease. The work was first published by his descendent (and more likely author) Sun Zhongquan in the 3rd year of the Longqing period (1569). This present edition is unrecorded in library catalogues in Taiwan and China.