Dujardin/Peyrilhe: Histoire de la chirurgie

François Dujardin/Bernhard Peyrilhe: Histoire de la chirurgie: depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours (Paris: Imprimerie royale 1774-1778))

• Digitized:
  • vol. 1 by Dujardin (1774)
    > Google Books (Original from Universidad Complutense Madrid, digitized 23 June 2009)
  • vol. 2 ed. by Peyrilhe (1778)
    > Google Books (Original from Ghent University, digitized 11 October 2010)
• Bibliographic reference: Löwendahl 0581
• No copy listed in Wiener China-Bibliographie

In volume I of this survey of the history of surgery (from antiquity to 500 C.E.), Japanese and Chinese medicine are covered (pp. 75-140), with four plates after Willem ten Rhijne’s. The author discusses acupuncture within its historical context, cf. the remarks in Löwendahl vol. 1, p. 259 (0581).