Medical talisman for complicated labour (Chinese MS)

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Medical talisman for complicated labour (Chinese MS). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Women's health talisman, for use in case of complicated labour, from a manuscript copy of Tian Yi fu lu (Record of Spells of the Celestial Physician) -- an anonymous book of charms and incantations to heal a wide range of problems, first published in 1123 (5th year of the Xuanhe reign period of the Northern Song dynasty).

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