Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology Volume 38

by Ssu-Miao Sun

Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul U. Unschuld and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520080580
• ISBN13: 9780520080584
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 525 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"