Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei
Subtitle: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Contributors: Jürgen Kovacs (Translator); Paul U. Unschuld (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780520080584
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Ophthalmology; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; History; Medical / Nursing; Medical; China; MED; MED063000; Asia - China; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Diseases; Early works to 1800; Eye; Eye Diseases; Medicine, Chinese
First sentence: No organ is comparable to the eye in its importance as a link between man and his environment.