From The Title Slip Shintei Gyuto Kiho From The Preface Shintei Toshu Kiho Methods Of Smallpox

by Genkyo Hirose Ed

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

One double-page & two single-page woodcuts. 18.5 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label faded , new stitching. Kyoto & Edo: Jishūdō 時習堂, 1849. Following the general introduction of vaccination by Edward Jenner, the practice spread widely, and it was warmly received by the Chinese. The first tract on vaccination in China was prepared by Alexander Pearson, a surgeon to the East India

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