The Yellow Emperor’s Classic Of Internal Medicine

Description

• Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wên
• Published as part of the Classics Of Medicine Library [Gryphon Editions, 1988]
• Full leather boards; gold-stamped design and titling; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; marbled endpapers; previous owner’s bookplate pasted to ffep; a fine copy
• Reprint of 1970 New Edition from University Of California
• Huang Ti is a legendary figure whose reign as Emperor of China is said to have occurred sometime between 2600 & 2700BCE. Together with Fu Tsi & Shen Nung, he is credited with founding the art of healing
• “The Nei Ching, the classic of internal medicine attributed to Huang Ti, The Yellow Emperor, is indeed a very important if not the most important early Chinese medical book, particularly its first part Su-Wên, “Familiar Conversations” between the Emperor and his physician Ch’i Pai.” – from the Foreword by Henry E Sigerist, MD, DLitt, LLD