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WESTERN MEDICAL PIONEERS IN FEUDAL JAPAN

by John Z. Bowers

Published by The John Hopkins Press. 1st. 1970

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Wrapper spine faded.

Stock no. 1708074

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • I Medicine before the Dutch
  • II The Early Years at Deshima: Willem Ten Rhijne and Engelbert Kaempfer
  • III Opening the Door to Western Medicine: Carl Pieter Thunberg
  • IV The Flowering of Western Medicine: Phillipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold
  • V The Continuing Rise of Western Medicine: The Return of Siebold
  • VI J.L.C. Pompe van Meerdvoort: The Official Adoption of Western Medicine.
  • Appendix I: Correspondence between William II of Holland and the Shogun of Japan AD 1844
  • Appendix II: Chronology of the Rise of Western Medicine in Japan
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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