(title at the beginning of the text) [or] Yi xue ru men dan tai yu an 醫學入門 [An Introduction to Medicine: The Red Platform and the Jade Desk] (title on cover page). 73 woodcut illus. Six juan in six vols. 8vo, bamboo paper (a few leaves missing from Preface in the first vol.), new wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Wu feng lou 五鳳樓, [1660].

Second edition of this influential medical work. “The book assembles material from [Huangdi] neijing [黃帝]內經 [The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon], Nanjing 難經 [The Classic of Difficult Issues] and Zhang Zhongjing 張仲景, Liu Hejian 劉河間, Zhu... More