In total, 281 medical and pharmaceutical books, and journals (including'general'ones, such
as the Gazeta de Lisb preserved in the so-called Beitang collection (Peking). These, in the …

But if a savage or a moon-man came And found a page, a furrowed runic field, And curiously
studied line and frame: How strange would be the world that they A magic gallery of oddities …

In fall 2002, Princeton University was the venue for a one-day workshop on" Global Science
and Comparative History," which was sponsored by the History of Science Program in …

Song-Yuan masters. Deeper writings also proliferated. They provide clues about what was
happening at the frontiers of medicine, but there are few aids to finding one's way among …

Several hitorian have recently drawn our attention to the importance of the search for useful
medicines by Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Dutch investigators. Less well-known …

In the 16th–18th Centuries AD, China was of great interest to Europeans. The arrival of the
Jesuit(Catholic) missionaries opened a cultural window that permitted Europeans the first …

Medical manuscripts in European languages have been an obvious and common source for
researching the history of Western medicine. There are a few manuscripts extant from …

Since the 1980s, the study of the social and cultural history of medicine in Qing China (1644–
1911) has been, in one sense, much easier than it had been before. For historians, access …

This work investigates the exchange of medical ideas and practices between China and the
West during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century within the context of the …

Historians have argued for the importance of Japan and the United States in shaping the
trajectory of science and medicine in Republican China, especially in the regions of North …