Manuscript on paper entitled on upper cover & first leaf “Aiketsu meiben” [“Comprehensive Method of...
Many fine brush & black ink illus. in the text. 45 folding leaves. 8vo (245 x 170 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled), old stitching. [Japan]: at end in trans.: “copied in 1807.”
We learn from the first leaf of the index at the beginning of this manuscript that this is a later copy of a unpublished manuscript by Hori (1725-62), a native of Kyoto, whose father was also a prominent physician. Hori began to lecture in 1758 but died early.
In this work, Hori provides a guide to finding pressure points for acupuncture based on bone measurement. Using bone... More