Fuei Shinsetsu [New Treatise on Obstetrics]

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Fuei Shinsetsu [New Treatise on Obstetrics]

[Hobson, Benjamin (original text by)].

Tōkyō: Yorozuya Heishirō, Meiji Kanotohitsuji [1871].

A Japanese edition of this illustrated treatise on midwifery first published in Shanghai in 1858. The first Japanese edition was published in 1859. The author, Benjamin Hobson, was a member of the London Missionary Society in China and worked in hospitals there for twenty years. In works including this one, Hobson "introduced [into Chinese and Japanese medicine] invasive surgery for childbirth drawn from the anatomical sciences that had evolved in Europe since the sixteenth century" (Benjamin Elman, A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), p. 110). An important text which disclosed Western obstetric techniques to Japanese doctors and midwives through detailed illustrations.

Two four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volumes, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Original wrappers a little creased, worn, and marked. Original daisen (title panels) present. Occasional marks and browning internally. 2, 2, 7, 35; 27 leaves. 25.3 x 16.8 cm. Text in kanbun, with printed kundoku diacritics.

Fuei Shinsetsu [New Treatise on Obstetrics]
Price: $360.00 (USD)