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1699000020Kyoto Genroku period 12 1699. Sewn Binding. Good . 2 volumes. 4to 216 x 150 mm. Contemporary Japanese blue rice paper with silk ties paper worn and torn in places; opening leaves of vol. 1 wormed in blank upper margins. Collation:126 ; 90 pp. 11 large mostly full page woodcuts and several smaller woodcuts in text. The volumes are worn; opening leaves of vol. 1 wormed in blank upper margins occasionally affecting part of a character. There is some staining and foxing in text areas and dusting to edges. Numerous Japanese notations in red ink throughout text. Title from table of contents./ "Igaku shiyo sho . cho Ryuunken . " Cf. Kokusho somokuroku v. 1 p. 146./ "Kottaihitsuretsu . ga henshitaru Kinran junkyo . o honmon ni mochiite chuseraretari." <br/><br/>This study on acupuncture was translated from Chinese to Japanese. This is a translation of a classical text from the Yuan dynasty 1264-1368 written by Hua Shou which translated literally is "An Elucidation of The Fourteen Channels or Meridians and their functions." According to the descritionn for a copy in the National Medical Library "The work is divided into three parts: the first dealing with the circulation of the yin and yang in the arms and legs; the second with the course of the qi through the fourteen meridians; and the third with the eight "extraordinary vessels." Unlike many Western anatomies Hua Shou's does not depict or describe the body's musculature or skeleton; in fact during this period and for many centuries afterward Chinese physicians lacked a specific term for "muscle." unknown books