34 folding leaves. Small 4to (237 x 166 mm.), contemporary wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: at end of orig. Preface & end of scribe’s introduction: “1813.”

Tongue and lip diagnosis has been a vital tool used in traditional Chinese medicine for both assessing the current health of a patient and providing a basis for prognosis. Our text is based on a portion of Zhongjing Zhang’s late 2nd-century work Shanghan lun. “Zhang is known to have compiled this text after an epidemic swept through his hometown of Changsha (in present-day Hunan province), killing numerous family members and decimating the general population. Over the next two centuries... More