PMID: 11619293Dec 1, 1996Paper

Medical and pharmaceutical tales recorded in "Genroku- Sekenbanashi-Fubunshu"

Nihon ishigaku zasshi. [Journal of Japanese history of medicine]
T Hamada

Abstract

"Genroku-Sekenbanashi-Fubunshu" consists of eleven volumes and was written from 1694 to 1703, in the Edo Period. The original book was kept at the Faculty of Literature, Tokyo University. In 1994, this book was first published as one of the Iwanami-Bunko Series. I studied the tales recorded in this book and found that twenty-seven of them were concerned with medical and pharmaceutial sciences. In these medical and pharmaceutical tales, there were several kinds, relating to such matters as spells to cure or prevent illness, curious sicknesses, episodes regarding the origin of remedies, medicinal plants and crude drugs, medical books, doctors and surgeons, persons who lived long, and so forth. It was difficult to explain about the spells which were thought effective to cure illness, but I could gain an understanding that Japanese people lived such lives in the old days.

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