Shuoyi 說疫 Discourses on Epidemics

by Kui 劉奎 Liu

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First edition

Woodblock-printed. 1 , 2, 8 , 32; 44 f. 13 before f. 12 ; 47 paginated 45-90, inserted leaf between ff. 87 & 88 ; 32; 17, 22; 52 f. 15 after f. 52 folding leaves. Six juan in six vols. 8vo 150 x 227 mm. , new plain wrappers, new stitching some loose . China : Benya cangban, Preface dated 1786. First edition, privately published, of the most original work of the 18th-century epidemiologist Liu Kui zi Songfeng 松峯, fl. 18th c. , who pioneered a

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