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MESTLER, Gordon E.. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICIN.
THE ONE AND ONLY COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE SUBJECT This is a special compilation of three titles: a. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ERLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. The famous and highly acclaimed complete bibliography of Japanese medical books. * b. AN INDEX TO THE SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES. This is a complete index by Mestler, Los Angeles, 1964. * c. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE, London 1957. * The joining of these three fascinating items into a single bound volume is a unique collection of Gordon Mestler's works on Japanese medicine under one cover. ********** * A MOST SUPERB AND VALUABLE REFERENCE WORK ! * The GALAXY was begun in 1954 and finished in 1957. It represented over five years of research, collecting, cataloguing and plenty of just hard work by the author who was a professor of anatomy at State University of New York, College of Medicine at N.Y.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. It was to be his "magnum opus." Indeed it was his greatest bibliographic achievement. The GALAXY, together with AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES [1964], comprises the best and most comprehensive single resource in English to date on ancient Japanese medical bibliography. * THE CONTENTS: * This work consists of three items authored by Gordon E. Mestler, each separately published but now bound in one: 1. AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF THE PRE-MEIJI TIMES [i.e. index to the GALAXY] * 2. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE * 3. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. * CONTENTS OF 'GALAXY': Pt. I: Medical History and biography, general works, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology. * Pt. II: Acupuncture, moxibustion, bathing, balneotherapy and massage, nursing, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, and hygiene. * Pt. II: Urology, syphilology, dermatology, surgery, pathology. * Pt. IV: Ophthalmology, psychiatry, dentistry. * Pt. V: Biblio-historical addenda, corrections, postscripts and acknowledgements. * MORE ON THE CONTENTS AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS: The work was profusely illustrated, showing major themes in early native genre of medicine and pharmacopoeia. This is the one and only work of its kind in English, methodically covering each of the recognized disciplines in a scholarly and comprehensive way. A most superb illustrated guide to Japanese and Chinese woodblock printed & illustrated literature from the 17th to 19th centuries. An extremely valuable reference tool for this genre of scientific literature. This resource guides collectors and students of early woodblock printed medical monographs printed from 17th century Japanese Rangaku-sha or students of Dutch Learning and medicine, physicians and a host of other related materials including pharmacopoeia. * It is also a bibliographic history and documents the ancient origins and early beginning of systematic Japanese medical study based on Chinese & Korean books resources as well as European the influence from 17th century Dutch in Nagasaki and even earlier Portuguese Jesuits who came to Tanegashima in Southern Japan in 1549. The "GALAXY" documents these medical books from which the earliest Japanese medical books emanated from. They started in the 8th century when importation from China began in earnest. * The work is long out-of-print and has never been reprinted, and hitherto been difficult to locate. It was compiled and annotated with the utmost care with much scholarly detail. The complete work was issued in five serially issued articles in reprint form from the original journal in stiff blue covers. The valuable and highly useful index was issued later as a separate publication. Together they now compose the complete Galaxy. * An essential reference for any medical library, student or researcher on early Japanese and Chinese influenced Japanese medicine. Nicely illustrated with examples from the books cited. With additional bibliographical footnotes and text to the plates. This is the one and only single and most comprehensive bibliographical resource on the subject in English. The comprehensive later index covers: authors, titles and key words, again compiled by Mestler. This index makes the "GALAXY" articles much more accessible and is indispensable. The "GALAXY" lists and cites a substantial number of original Chinese medical works, most of which were eventually were copied, renamed and rewritten by Japanese physicians. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Other useful resources on woodblock printed Japanese medical books, and their originals found in Chinese medical books. * Mary W. Standlee: THE GREAT PULSE: Japanese Midwifery and Obstetrics Through the Middle ages. * Y. FUJIKAWA: JAPANESE MEDICINE, translated by John Ruhrah. * Syuuzoo Kure: REPORT OF THE MEDICAL EXHIBITION VI CONGRESS OF THE FAR EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 1925. * Willis N. Whitney; NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL PROGRESS IN JAPAN: * William t. HELMUTH: A GLANCE AT JAPANESE MEDICINE ANCIENT AMD MODERN, Reprinted from the NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMEOPAHTY. * Genpaku Sugita: DAWN OF WESTERN SCIENCE IN JAPAN: RANGAKU KOTOHAJIME. * Grant K. Goodman: THE DUTCH IMPACT ON JAPAN 1640-1853. * H. Huzimoto et al.: SCIENCE EDUCATION IN JAPAN. * Chandler McC. Brooks. et al.: JAPANESE PHYSIOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT. * Edward H. Hume: THE CHINESE WAY IN MEDICINE. * William R. Morse: CHINESE MEDICINE. * William A. Lessa: CHINESE BODY DIVINATION: Its Forms, Affinities, and Functions. * Wellcome Institute: CHINESE MEDICINE AN EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING THE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OF CHINA. * Pierre Huard et al.: CHINESE MEDICINE. * Heinrich Wallnofer et al.; CHINESE FOLK MEDICINE. * Ilza Veith: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. * Hidetomi Tuge: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN. * NAITO MUSEUM OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: HAYARI YAMAI NO NISHIKI-E: NISHIKI-E OR COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF INFECTIONS. * Calvin L.FRENCH: SHIBA KOKAN: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan. * NAKAHARA, Sen. et al. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF DENTISTRY IN UKIYOE. * P.F. Kornicki; JAPANESE MEDICAL AND OTHER BOOKS AT THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE. * [HUARD, Pierre.] et al. LA MEDECINE JAPONAISE. * Please inquire about the above items, we may have them in stock. * Color scans can be sent by email. * * * BUY WITH CONFIDENCE 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE ! * * * !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Chicago] 1954-1957, 1964, MLA. Recently rebound in pebbled blue cloth, very bright, clean copy, 50+ 287-327; 468-500; 125-159; 327-347; 164-219pp., 15 b.w. photos, 17 x 25 cm. THE COMPLETE WORK FIRST EDITION

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MESTLER, Gordon E.. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICIN.
THE ONE AND ONLY COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE SUBJECT This is a special compilation of three titles: a. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ERLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. The famous and highly acclaimed complete bibliography of Japanese medical books. * b. AN INDEX TO THE SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES. This is a complete index by Mestler, Los Angeles, 1964. * c. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE, London 1957. * The joining of these three fascinating items into a single bound volume is a unique collection of Gordon Mestler's works on Japanese medicine under one cover. ********** * A MOST SUPERB AND VALUABLE REFERENCE WORK ! * The GALAXY was begun in 1954 and finished in 1957. It represented over five years of research, collecting, cataloguing and plenty of just hard work by the author who was a professor of anatomy at State University of New York, College of Medicine at N.Y.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. It was to be his "magnum opus." Indeed it was his greatest bibliographic achievement. The GALAXY, together with AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES [1964], comprises the best and most comprehensive single resource in English to date on ancient Japanese medical bibliography. * THE CONTENTS: * This work consists of three items authored by Gordon E. Mestler, each separately published but now bound in one: 1. AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF THE PRE-MEIJI TIMES [i.e. index to the GALAXY] * 2. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE * 3. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. * CONTENTS OF 'GALAXY': Pt. I: Medical History and biography, general works, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology. * Pt. II: Acupuncture, moxibustion, bathing, balneotherapy and massage, nursing, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, and hygiene. * Pt. II: Urology, syphilology, dermatology, surgery, pathology. * Pt. IV: Ophthalmology, psychiatry, dentistry. * Pt. V: Biblio-historical addenda, corrections, postscripts and acknowledgements. * MORE ON THE CONTENTS AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS: The work was profusely illustrated, showing major themes in early native genre of medicine and pharmacopoeia. This is the one and only work of its kind in English, methodically covering each of the recognized disciplines in a scholarly and comprehensive way. A most superb illustrated guide to Japanese and Chinese woodblock printed & illustrated literature from the 17th to 19th centuries. An extremely valuable reference tool for this genre of scientific literature. This resource guides collectors and students of early woodblock printed medical monographs printed from 17th century Japanese Rangaku-sha or students of Dutch Learning and medicine, physicians and a host of other related materials including pharmacopoeia. * It is also a bibliographic history and documents the ancient origins and early beginning of systematic Japanese medical study based on Chinese & Korean books resources as well as European the influence from 17th century Dutch in Nagasaki and even earlier Portuguese Jesuits who came to Tanegashima in Southern Japan in 1549. The "GALAXY" documents these medical books from which the earliest Japanese medical books emanated from. They started in the 8th century when importation from China began in earnest. * The work is long out-of-print and has never been reprinted, and hitherto been difficult to locate. It was compiled and annotated with the utmost care with much scholarly detail. The complete work was issued in five serially issued articles in reprint form from the original journal in stiff blue covers. The valuable and highly useful index was issued later as a separate publication. Together they now compose the complete Galaxy. * An essential reference for any medical library, student or researcher on early Japanese and Chinese influenced Japanese medicine. Nicely illustrated with examples from the books cited. With additional bibliographical footnotes and text to the plates. This is the one and only single and most comprehensive bibliographical resource on the subject in English. The comprehensive later index covers: authors, titles and key words, again compiled by Mestler. This index makes the "GALAXY" articles much more accessible and is indispensable. The "GALAXY" lists and cites a substantial number of original Chinese medical works, most of which were eventually were copied, renamed and rewritten by Japanese physicians. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Other useful resources on woodblock printed Japanese medical books, and their originals found in Chinese medical books. * Mary W. Standlee: THE GREAT PULSE: Japanese Midwifery and Obstetrics Through the Middle ages. * Y. FUJIKAWA: JAPANESE MEDICINE, translated by John Ruhrah. * Syuuzoo Kure: REPORT OF THE MEDICAL EXHIBITION VI CONGRESS OF THE FAR EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 1925. * Willis N. Whitney; NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL PROGRESS IN JAPAN: * William t. HELMUTH: A GLANCE AT JAPANESE MEDICINE ANCIENT AMD MODERN, Reprinted from the NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMEOPAHTY. * Genpaku Sugita: DAWN OF WESTERN SCIENCE IN JAPAN: RANGAKU KOTOHAJIME. * Grant K. Goodman: THE DUTCH IMPACT ON JAPAN 1640-1853. * H. Huzimoto et al.: SCIENCE EDUCATION IN JAPAN. * Chandler McC. Brooks. et al.: JAPANESE PHYSIOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT. * Edward H. Hume: THE CHINESE WAY IN MEDICINE. * William R. Morse: CHINESE MEDICINE. * William A. Lessa: CHINESE BODY DIVINATION: Its Forms, Affinities, and Functions. * Wellcome Institute: CHINESE MEDICINE AN EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING THE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OF CHINA. * Pierre Huard et al.: CHINESE MEDICINE. * Heinrich Wallnofer et al.; CHINESE FOLK MEDICINE. * Ilza Veith: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. * Hidetomi Tuge: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN. * NAITO MUSEUM OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: HAYARI YAMAI NO NISHIKI-E: NISHIKI-E OR COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF INFECTIONS. * Calvin L.FRENCH: SHIBA KOKAN: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan. * NAKAHARA, Sen. et al. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF DENTISTRY IN UKIYOE. * P.F. Kornicki; JAPANESE MEDICAL AND OTHER BOOKS AT THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE. * [HUARD, Pierre.] et al. LA MEDECINE JAPONAISE. * Please inquire about the above items, we may have them in stock. * Color scans can be sent by email. * * * BUY WITH CONFIDENCE 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE ! * * * !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Chicago] 1954-1957, 1964, MLA. Recently rebound in pebbled blue cloth, top edge slightly damped, 50+ 287-327; 468-500; 125-159; 327-347; 164-219pp., 15 b.w. photos, 17 x 25 cm. THE COMPLETE WORK FIRST EDITION

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MESTLER, Gordon E.. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICIN.
THE ONE AND ONLY COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE SUBJECT This is a special compilation of three titles: a. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ERLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. The famous and highly acclaimed complete bibliography of Japanese medical books. * b. AN INDEX TO THE SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES. This is a complete index by Mestler, Los Angeles, 1964. * c. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE, London 1957. * The joining of these three fascinating items into a single bound volume is a unique collection of Gordon Mestler's works on Japanese medicine under one cover. ********** * A MOST SUPERB AND VALUABLE REFERENCE WORK ! * The GALAXY was begun in 1954 and finished in 1957. It represented over five years of research, collecting, cataloguing and plenty of just hard work by the author who was a professor of anatomy at State University of New York, College of Medicine at N.Y.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. It was to be his "magnum opus." Indeed it was his greatest bibliographic achievement. The GALAXY, together with AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES [1964], comprises the best and most comprehensive single resource in English to date on ancient Japanese medical bibliography. * THE CONTENTS: * This work consists of three items authored by Gordon E. Mestler, each separately published but now bound in one: 1. AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF THE PRE-MEIJI TIMES [i.e. index to the GALAXY] * 2. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE * 3. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. * CONTENTS OF 'GALAXY': Pt. I: Medical History and biography, general works, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology. * Pt. II: Acupuncture, moxibustion, bathing, balneotherapy and massage, nursing, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, and hygiene. * Pt. II: Urology, syphilology, dermatology, surgery, pathology. * Pt. IV: Ophthalmology, psychiatry, dentistry. * Pt. V: Biblio-historical addenda, corrections, postscripts and acknowledgements. * MORE ON THE CONTENTS AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS: The work was profusely illustrated, showing major themes in early native genre of medicine and pharmacopoeia. This is the one and only work of its kind in English, methodically covering each of the recognized disciplines in a scholarly and comprehensive way. A most superb illustrated guide to Japanese and Chinese woodblock printed & illustrated literature from the 17th to 19th centuries. An extremely valuable reference tool for this genre of scientific literature. This resource guides collectors and students of early woodblock printed medical monographs printed from 17th century Japanese Rangaku-sha or students of Dutch Learning and medicine, physicians and a host of other related materials including pharmacopoeia. * It is also a bibliographic history and documents the ancient origins and early beginning of systematic Japanese medical study based on Chinese & Korean books resources as well as European the influence from 17th century Dutch in Nagasaki and even earlier Portuguese Jesuits who came to Tanegashima in Southern Japan in 1549. The "GALAXY" documents these medical books from which the earliest Japanese medical books emanated from. They started in the 8th century when importation from China began in earnest. * The work is long out-of-print and has never been reprinted, and hitherto been difficult to locate. It was compiled and annotated with the utmost care with much scholarly detail. The complete work was issued in five serially issued articles in reprint form from the original journal in stiff blue covers. The valuable and highly useful index was issued later as a separate publication. Together they now compose the complete Galaxy. * An essential reference for any medical library, student or researcher on early Japanese and Chinese influenced Japanese medicine. Nicely illustrated with examples from the books cited. With additional bibliographical footnotes and text to the plates. This is the one and only single and most comprehensive bibliographical resource on the subject in English. The comprehensive later index covers: authors, titles and key words, again compiled by Mestler. This index makes the "GALAXY" articles much more accessible and is indispensable. The "GALAXY" lists and cites a substantial number of original Chinese medical works, most of which were eventually were copied, renamed and rewritten by Japanese physicians. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Other useful resources on woodblock printed Japanese medical books, and their originals found in Chinese medical books. * Mary W. Standlee: THE GREAT PULSE: Japanese Midwifery and Obstetrics Through the Middle ages. * Y. FUJIKAWA: JAPANESE MEDICINE, translated by John Ruhrah. * Syuuzoo Kure: REPORT OF THE MEDICAL EXHIBITION VI CONGRESS OF THE FAR EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 1925. * Willis N. Whitney; NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL PROGRESS IN JAPAN: * William t. HELMUTH: A GLANCE AT JAPANESE MEDICINE ANCIENT AMD MODERN, Reprinted from the NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMEOPAHTY. * Genpaku Sugita: DAWN OF WESTERN SCIENCE IN JAPAN: RANGAKU KOTOHAJIME. * Grant K. Goodman: THE DUTCH IMPACT ON JAPAN 1640-1853. * H. Huzimoto et al.: SCIENCE EDUCATION IN JAPAN. * Chandler McC. Brooks. et al.: JAPANESE PHYSIOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT. * Edward H. Hume: THE CHINESE WAY IN MEDICINE. * William R. Morse: CHINESE MEDICINE. * William A. Lessa: CHINESE BODY DIVINATION: Its Forms, Affinities, and Functions. * Wellcome Institute: CHINESE MEDICINE AN EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING THE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OF CHINA. * Pierre Huard et al.: CHINESE MEDICINE. * Heinrich Wallnofer et al.; CHINESE FOLK MEDICINE. * Ilza Veith: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. * Hidetomi Tuge: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN. * NAITO MUSEUM OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: HAYARI YAMAI NO NISHIKI-E: NISHIKI-E OR COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF INFECTIONS. * Calvin L.FRENCH: SHIBA KOKAN: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan. * NAKAHARA, Sen. et al. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF DENTISTRY IN UKIYOE. * P.F. Kornicki; JAPANESE MEDICAL AND OTHER BOOKS AT THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE. * [HUARD, Pierre.] et al. LA MEDECINE JAPONAISE. * Please inquire about the above items, we may have them in stock. * Color scans can be sent by email. * * * BUY WITH CONFIDENCE 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE ! * * * !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Chicago] 1954-1957, 1964, MLA. Recently rebound in pebbled blue cloth, last 20p. slightly damp stained, else clean, 50+ 287-327; 468-500; 125-159; 327-347; 164-219pp.,15 bw. photos 17 x 25 cm. THE COMPLETE WORK FIRST EDITION

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MESTLER, Gordon E.. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICIN.
THE ONE AND ONLY COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE SUBJECT This is a special compilation of three titles: a. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ERLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. The famous and highly acclaimed complete bibliography of Japanese medical books. * b. AN INDEX TO THE SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES. This is a complete index by Mestler, Los Angeles, 1964. * c. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE, London 1957. * The joining of these three fascinating items into a single bound volume is a unique collection of Gordon Mestler's works on Japanese medicine under one cover. ********** * A MOST SUPERB AND VALUABLE REFERENCE WORK ! * The GALAXY was begun in 1954 and finished in 1957. It represented over five years of research, collecting, cataloguing and plenty of just hard work by the author who was a professor of anatomy at State University of New York, College of Medicine at N.Y.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. It was to be his "magnum opus." Indeed it was his greatest bibliographic achievement. The GALAXY, together with AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF PRE-MEIJI TIMES [1964], comprises the best and most comprehensive single resource in English to date on ancient Japanese medical bibliography. * THE CONTENTS: * This work consists of three items authored by Gordon E. Mestler, each separately published but now bound in one: 1. AN INDEX TO SELECTED JAPANESE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF THE PRE-MEIJI TIMES [i.e. index to the GALAXY] * 2. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE MEDICINE * 3. A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EARLY MEDICINE IN JAPAN. * CONTENTS OF 'GALAXY': Pt. I: Medical History and biography, general works, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology. * Pt. II: Acupuncture, moxibustion, bathing, balneotherapy and massage, nursing, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, and hygiene. * Pt. II: Urology, syphilology, dermatology, surgery, pathology. * Pt. IV: Ophthalmology, psychiatry, dentistry. * Pt. V: Biblio-historical addenda, corrections, postscripts and acknowledgements. * MORE ON THE CONTENTS AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS: The work was profusely illustrated, showing major themes in early native genre of medicine and pharmacopoeia. This is the one and only work of its kind in English, methodically covering each of the recognized disciplines in a scholarly and comprehensive way. A most superb illustrated guide to Japanese and Chinese woodblock printed & illustrated literature from the 17th to 19th centuries. An extremely valuable reference tool for this genre of scientific literature. This resource guides collectors and students of early woodblock printed medical monographs printed from 17th century Japanese Rangaku-sha or students of Dutch Learning and medicine, physicians and a host of other related materials including pharmacopoeia. * It is also a bibliographic history and documents the ancient origins and early beginning of systematic Japanese medical study based on Chinese & Korean books resources as well as European the influence from 17th century Dutch in Nagasaki and even earlier Portuguese Jesuits who came to Tanegashima in Southern Japan in 1549. The "GALAXY" documents these medical books from which the earliest Japanese medical books emanated from. They started in the 8th century when importation from China began in earnest. * The work is long out-of-print and has never been reprinted, and hitherto been difficult to locate. It was compiled and annotated with the utmost care with much scholarly detail. The complete work was issued in five serially issued articles in reprint form from the original journal in stiff blue covers. The valuable and highly useful index was issued later as a separate publication. Together they now compose the complete Galaxy. * An essential reference for any medical library, student or researcher on early Japanese and Chinese influenced Japanese medicine. Nicely illustrated with examples from the books cited. With additional bibliographical footnotes and text to the plates. This is the one and only single and most comprehensive bibliographical resource on the subject in English. The comprehensive later index covers: authors, titles and key words, again compiled by Mestler. This index makes the "GALAXY" articles much more accessible and is indispensable. The "GALAXY" lists and cites a substantial number of original Chinese medical works, most of which were eventually were copied, renamed and rewritten by Japanese physicians. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Other useful resources on woodblock printed Japanese medical books, and their originals found in Chinese medical books. * Mary W. Standlee: THE GREAT PULSE: Japanese Midwifery and Obstetrics Through the Middle ages. * Y. FUJIKAWA: JAPANESE MEDICINE, translated by John Ruhrah. * Syuuzoo Kure: REPORT OF THE MEDICAL EXHIBITION VI CONGRESS OF THE FAR EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 1925. * Willis N. Whitney; NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL PROGRESS IN JAPAN: * William t. HELMUTH: A GLANCE AT JAPANESE MEDICINE ANCIENT AMD MODERN, Reprinted from the NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMEOPAHTY. * Genpaku Sugita: DAWN OF WESTERN SCIENCE IN JAPAN: RANGAKU KOTOHAJIME. * Grant K. Goodman: THE DUTCH IMPACT ON JAPAN 1640-1853. * H. Huzimoto et al.: SCIENCE EDUCATION IN JAPAN. * Chandler McC. Brooks. et al.: JAPANESE PHYSIOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT. * Edward H. Hume: THE CHINESE WAY IN MEDICINE. * William R. Morse: CHINESE MEDICINE. * William A. Lessa: CHINESE BODY DIVINATION: Its Forms, Affinities, and Functions. * Wellcome Institute: CHINESE MEDICINE AN EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING THE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OF CHINA. * Pierre Huard et al.: CHINESE MEDICINE. * Heinrich Wallnofer et al.; CHINESE FOLK MEDICINE. * Ilza Veith: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. * Hidetomi Tuge: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN. * NAITO MUSEUM OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: HAYARI YAMAI NO NISHIKI-E: NISHIKI-E OR COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF INFECTIONS. * Calvin L.FRENCH: SHIBA KOKAN: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan. * NAKAHARA, Sen. et al. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF DENTISTRY IN UKIYOE. * P.F. Kornicki; JAPANESE MEDICAL AND OTHER BOOKS AT THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE. * [HUARD, Pierre.] et al. LA MEDECINE JAPONAISE. * Please inquire about the above items, we may have them in stock. * Color scans can be sent by email. * * * BUY WITH CONFIDENCE 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE ! * * * !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Chicago] 1954-1957, 1964, MLA. Original blue wrs.,very good 50+ 287-327; 468-500; 125-159; 327-347; 164-219pp., 15 b.w. photos, 17.5 x 25 cm., with index stapled A4 size. THE COMPLETE WORK FIRST EDITION

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