Subject: Medicine, Chinese--Philosophy

expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine
AuthorKuriyama Shigehisa 栗山茂久, 1954-
PlaceNew York
PublisherZone Books
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberR723.K87 1999
Description340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteThe expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-329) and index.

Styles of touching--Grasping the language of life--Expressiveness of words--Styles of Seeing--Muscularity and identity--Expressiveness of colors--Styles of being--Blood and life--Wind and self.
Keywords: Comparative Anatomy; medical texts, internal organs, the body in art.

ISBN0942299884 ; 9780942299885
LCCN98-37210
Nanjing 難經 [ch.11]. [Jap-Sin II-85.4]
Author
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library, ARSI
Edition
LanguageChinese, Latin, Portuguese
TypeDigital text [pdf]
Series
ShelfDigital Archives, ARSI
Call NumberR127.1.N37
Descriptionpdf mss. [6 folios ; 28. 8 x 19.6 cm.]
NoteJapSin II, 85.4

A translation of chapter 11 of the Nanjing 難經 with a diagram.
Bamboo paper in six folios. 28. 8 x 19.6 cm.
A diagram of the viscera with the five elements that correspond to each of them. 61.5 x 28.1 cm.

On folio 1 there is a Latin inscription: “Notandum quod quae hic inferuntur de re medica, sic inserantur ut sine deformitate operis liberum sit Patri Prospero Intorcetta ea omnia penitus omittere.”
Included are some notes in Latin and Portuguese in eight sheets (15.2 x 12.5 cm), with one other sheet (22.3 x 14.2 cm). The Nanjing was originally known as Huangdi bashiyi nanjing 黃帝八十一難經 and is said to have been written in the third century B.C. The book was written in the form of questions and answers, containing a solution of eighty-one doubtful questions. It gives some fundamental theories on Chinese medicine with some analyses of diseases.

Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 396.

Local access Digital Archives ARSI Jap-Sin I-IV folder.
Online at ARSI via Internet Archive.

secret treatise of the spiritual orchid : Suwen chapter 8
AuthorLarre, ClaudeRochat de la Vallée, Elisabeth
PlaceCambridge, Eng.
PublisherMonkey Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition2nd ed.
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberR127.1.S9 L288 1992
Descriptionviii, 162 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteThe Secret treatise of the spiritual orchid : Suwen chapter 8 / Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée.
2nd ed. / Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée.
Includes index.