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MATERIAL: Woodblock Printed
TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 6 1/2 X 10 inches (closed)
COMPONENTS: 92 pages; 8 have fine graphic woodblock prints of diseases & afflictions
CONDITION: Original covers & title slip, contents complete, fine impressions & colors, generally fair to good shape for the age.
NOTES: Rare and original.
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 1202
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Early Medical Guide

DATE
Decade: 1830s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: 1837?

Japanese woodblock print book of an early medical guide.

According to scholar Peter Kornicki, “A continuation of Honma Sōken’s treatise on ulcers, of which the first part, Yōka hiroku, was published in 1837. Zoku yōka hiroku introduces a number of Honma’s surgical practices, including his ground-breaking amputation of a gangrenous leg undertaken in 1857. It is written in katakana-majiri script and is supplied with numerous polychrome illustrations by an unknown artist. It was privately published by the author in 1859 and distributed for sale by a number of commercial publishers in Edo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya.”