Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1828

BENJAMIN HOBSON (1816-1873) Ch'üan t'i hsin lun. Mo-hai Book Shop 1851 [154] pp., [44] pp. of plates. 27 cm.

Hobson was one of the early Western missionaries and physicians who worked in China during the nineteenth century. He received his medical education in London and served as a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society at Canton and Shanghai from 1847 to 1856. He was a serious student of the Chinese language and produced a series of five medical and scientific treatises (see Nos. 1828-1832) which were the only Chinese source of information on western science and medicine for a long period of time. Although the books are given no special treatment, they appear together here as a set. It is believed that after the last treatise was published, the individual volumes were collected and sold as a unit of five separate volumes. The present work on anatomy and physiology is very well illustrated and some of the finely drawn illustrations were taken from Cheselden's anatomy (see No. 814).

See Related Record(s): 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 814

Cited references: Waller 4616 (Shanghai ed., n.d.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.