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(Worlg),: Perliner,, (1981).. 255, [i] pp. Large 4to. Original cloth with pictorial dust jacket. With numerous photographs by the author, of which many full colour and double-page. A most interesting account of this remarkable aspect of 'medicine'. The pictures showing famous Philippine healers in, often bloody actions, reaching into patient's bodies to perform their healing.

Tokyo,, 1911.. 115 pp. 8vo. With numerous illustrations. -- This is a Xerox copy. ¶ A History of Japanese Medicine from the earliest times to 1911; this work shows the influence of the Chinese medicine upon the development of Japanese medicine, and the later effects of Portugese and Dutch contacts with Japan.

Beijing,: La Chine en construction,, 1979.. [iv], 81, [1] pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 18,5cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled). With 22 photographs. ¶ A collection of 14 articles illustrating the development and "state-of-art" of Chinese medicine, presented as a mixture of Oriental medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and modern western medicine. Published in the series "La Chine en construction", another propaganda project of the communistic Peking regime. Including an article by Huang Jiasi, chairmen of the Chinese Academy of Medicine on the history and progess of chinese surgery.

London,: Serindia Publications,, (1995).. 271, [i] pp. Large 4to (23,5 x 30,5 cm.). Original publisher's cloth with pictorial dust-jacket. With numerous plates and illustrations in black and white and in full colour. First edition of a fine introduction into the traditional medical system of Asia, being a companion to the editor's major exhibition in the Antwerps Ethnographical Museum on the vast subject of Oriental Medicine (October-December 1995). A nice clean copy.