Seven vols. 8vo (260 x 148 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers with pasted-on title-slips, orig. stitching. Shanghai: Xinzhongguo yixueyuan, ca. 1941-42.

A collection of textbooks issued by the New Chinese Medical College of Shanghai (Xin zhongguo yixueyuan 新中國醫學院), established in 1935, as the city’s third modern medical school. The teaching faculty, including many leading figures in the modernization of Chinese medicine, sought to integrate traditional Chinese and modern Western medicine within a coherent pedagogical system. Giving equal weight to the medical theories, terminology, and treatments derived from longstanding Chinese practices as well as modern scientific research, these textbooks pioneered the Sino-Western... More