Happo dano ko trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine

by Yu Takebe

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First edition

Seven full-page woodcuts & a few smaller text illus. 49 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title label on upper cover with title in manuscript, modern stitching. Wakayama: Kasedaya Hiemon et al., 1818. First edition of Takebe’s translation and commentary of Lorenz Heister’s writings on infections and their treatment. Heister 1683-1758 , wrote one of the best and most complete works on surgery of the 18th century. Translated into Japanese,

• Binding: Wrappers

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