Forgotten disease : illnesses transformed in Chinese medicine /
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine-sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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