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Venerating the Root: Part Two

Venerating the Root: Part Two

Wilms, Sabine

Paperback

Medical ReferenceFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0991342933
ISBN13: 9780991342938
Publisher: Happy Goat Productions
Published: May 22 2015
Pages: 568
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is a literal translation of the second half of Volume 5 from the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang 備急千金要方 on pediatrics, composed by Sun Simiao 孫思邈 in the seventh century. It includes the following features:

  • 26 pages of introductory matter and 544 pages of main text.
  • A critical edition of the Chinese text with the literal English translation on opposing pages.
  • Five main sections on Cold Damage, Cough, Aggregations, Binds, Distention, and Fullness, Welling Abscesses, Flat Abscesses, and Scrofula, and Miscellaneous Diseases of Small Children. Here is a link to the Table of Contents.
  • Extensive translator's notes that explain individual terms, medical concepts, alternative readings of passages, translation issues, etc.
  • Clinical commentary by Dr. Julian Scott.
  • Interspersed throughout the translation and commenting on each major formula in the text, Sabine has translated the section on pediatrics from the Qian Jin Fang Yan Yi 千金方衍義, a commentary on the Qian Jin Fang composed in 1698 by the famous physician Zhang Lu 張璐.
  • Forewords by two experienced pediatricians: Dr. Stephen Cowan and Assaf Mor, and a short Preface by Sabine Wilms.
  • A general index and indexes for single herbs and formulas, indications, acupuncture and moxibustion, and proper names.

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