Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The ‘Yin-Hai Jing-Wei’ – A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology

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Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The ‘Yin-Hai Jing-Wei’ – A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology translated by Jürgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld 

ISBN: 9780520080584

Published 1988

Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-hai jing-wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts of traditional Chinese medicine into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul Unschuld and Jürgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and the therapy of every eye disease known to 15th century Chinese practitioners. The translators’ introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medical and Chinese thought, the Ying-hai jing-wei has no equal in the Western world.

Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul Unschuld and Jürgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and the therapy of every eye disease known to 15th century Chinese practitioners. The translators’ introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medical and Chinese thought, the <I>Ying-hai jing-wei</I> has no equal in the Western world.