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Chinese medicine.- Cleyer (Andreas) Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, 6 parts in 1, first edition, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 30 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, many leaves browned, slight worming at beginning, lower margin of final leaf repaired, original stiff wrappers with ms. title on spinbe, uncut, 4to, [Waller 9107; Garrison Morton 6492; Wellcome II, 359; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica II, 1470], Frankfurt, Joannes Petrus Zubrodt, 1682.*** "The Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, compiled by a German physician from Kassel, is the first illustrated book published on Chinese medicine in the West. It contains an overview of Chinese medical practices including acupuncture and meridian theories, semiology of the tongue, descriptions of Chinese pharmaceuticals and their uses, and an important translation of a Ming treatise on pulse diagnosis." (NY Academy of Medicine online).
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Chinese medicine.- Cleyer (Andreas) Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, 6 parts in 1, first edition,
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