Gyūka satsuyō.
牛科撮要.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Japanese |
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[Kyoto] :
Chojiya,
[1800]
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| Item Description: | Jonathan Hill, bookseller, description: 35 full-page woodcut illus. 31 folding leaves. Oblong 8vo, orig. wrappers (rubbed; some worming, occasionally touching image or text, carefully repaired, some light staining), orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Kyoto: Chojiya, 1800. Second or third edition of the first book published in Japan on veterinary medicine. The first edition was published in 1720. WorldCat lists a 1755? edition but we believe this is a ghost. In spite of its isolation, Japan experienced frequent and serious outbreaks of rinderpest in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book was written following an epizootic which destroyed 8800 cattle in Kagawa Prefecture in 1718. Torinshi “described a disease tachi, which appears synonymous with rinderpest, as highly fatal and intensely infectious. The symptoms, including rough hair coat on the back, swollen eyelids, redness of the conjunctiva, purulent lachrymal discharge, and corneal opacity, were illustrated.”–Spinage, Cattle Plague: A History, p. 492. The book is divided into two parts. The first is concerned with diseases of cows; it provides many case histories and accounts of treatments using herbal medicines. Each woodcut of a diseased cow has the name of the disease with visible symptoms. Facing each illustration on the opposing page is the prescribed remedy. The woodcuts depict the animals in considerable agony. Acupuncture points are depicted. The second part is devoted to horses and their symptoms and diseases. Again, acupuncture points are depicted. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). Within single border (13.2 x 19.5 cm.), text in 7 to 16 vertical lines, on 63 sides. |
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| Physical Description: | 1, 30 leaves : illustrations ; 16 x 22 cm |