MS Japanese 18

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1851
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MS Japanese 18. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A woodblock printed surgical-treatise by Kamata Keishū, also known as Gendai, dictated to his pupil Matsuoka Hajime. It was privately published in 1851 in Ōzu, Iyo by the author but the blocks were carved in Osaka. The work outlines a number of his surgical practices specialising in Breast Cancer, in katakana-majiri script, with polychrome illustrations by an unknown artist. This copy is incomplete.

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Japan, 1851

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Material: paper; 半7冊 1­3, 5, 8­10 | 7 volumes (No's 1-3, 5, and 8-10); binding dimensions: height 239mm, width 162mm, depth 47mm

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