Bakyō taizen /
馬経大全 : 4卷 /
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, description: An early edition (1st ed. in Japan: 1696) of this adaptation of one of the three major publications during the Ming dynasty on veterinary medicine, the Yuan Heng Liao Ma Chi. Our edition can be dated by the publisher, a specialist in books about medicine a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Japanese |
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[Kyoto] :
Nishimura,
[1728?-1730]
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| Summary: | Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, description: An early edition (1st ed. in Japan: 1696) of this adaptation of one of the three major publications during the Ming dynasty on veterinary medicine, the Yuan Heng Liao Ma Chi. Our edition can be dated by the publisher, a specialist in books about medicine and veterinary medicine, known to have resided at the address "Kyo[to] Horikawatoru nishiki comichi agaru," based on the list of 'just published' books on the colophon leaf. The book is divided into four sections: "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter" and 44 chapters of diagnosis and treatment. The attractive title-page in the first volume depicts several breeds of horses. There is a fine full-page woodcut of a Chinese professor of veterinary medicine seated with open books, surrounded by students. There are a series of illustrations depicting pressure points on the horses (and the author stresses that the pressure points are very different from those on humans). There is a long section on the significance of the color of the tongue (with a most attractive woodcut showing a doctor examining a horse's tongue). There are extensive sections on acupuncture, the bleeding of horses, constipation and kinds of enemas, dentition from age one to twelve (12 small woodcuts showing the changes), upset stomachs and vomiting horses, recipes for herbal medicines, hemmorhoids, joint pains, respiratory illnesses, fevers, diseases of the kidneys, birthing, eye diseases, heart problems, blood in the urine, diseases of the hoof, castration of stallions, auspicious days for surgery, etc., etc. The final volume is devoted to rules on how to feed and water horses correctly with many recipes. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. [Edo shoki]. Record based on Harvard copy, OCLC 43563463. Some illustrations span front and back of double leaf. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). Within double border (214 mm) top and bottom, double border on gutter edge to single border at pagination space (138mm), text in 10 to 11 vertical lines. |
| Physical Description: | 4 volumes (50 ; 73 ; 49 ; 40 folded leaves) : illustrations ; 26.5 cm |