Yōso zusetsu; 廱疽圖説

Contributor:

Hatano, Baiko (scribe)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1600

Description:

Illustrated treatise on the diagnosis of abscesses and tumors and their treatment, mostly through acupuncture or burning substances near the skin. Copied in Japan in Chinese for Japanese practitioners.

Language:

Chinese

Provenance:

Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs433.html

Subject:

Abscess -- Early works to 1800; Tumors -- Early works to 1800; Surgical instruments and apparatus -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Chinese -- Japan -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Chinese; Surgical instruments and apparatus; Tumors; Abscess

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; pen and wash drawings; diagrams; Manuscripts, Chinese; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

29 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 270 x 195 mm bound to 270 x 195 mm

Geographic Subject:

Japan

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 29 double sheet folios.; Layout: Written in up to 10 columns of up to 24 characters.; Script: Written in Chinese script.; Decoration: 47 medical illustrations in colored inks and wash of partially clothed patients with tumors or abscesses; 1 illustration of a hand in connection with a discussion of calculations (f. 28r); 2 illustrations in black ink of surgical instruments (f. 25v-26r); 2 diagrams (f. 26v, 28v); and one scene showing 2 doctors examining a patient (f. 29v). Vowels, punctuation, and other guides written in red ink.; Binding: Fukuro-toji (stitched) in later wrappers, with inscriptions on the upper cover.; Origin: Written in Japan, ca. 1600.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Chinese.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 433

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)