Acupuncture

Dissertatio de arthritide, 1683

Published by a physician and botanist of the Dutch East India Company in Japan, this text contains the first Western description of acupuncture.

Histoire de la chirurgie depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours, 1774-1780

A member of the l'Académie royale de Chirurgie, Franҫois Dujardin reviewed Chinese and Japanese medicine in his survey of the history of surgery. He reproduced several of the plates from Willem ten Rhijne's treatise on acupuncture and, in addition to placing the therapy in its historical context, maintained that it had current practical applications.

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi v quibus continentur, 1712

Some of the best descriptions and illustrations of acupuncture and moxibustion appear in the work of Englebert Kaempfer who traveled in Japan in the early 1690s. This excerpt and engraving concern acupuncture.

This is a model of human body showing acupuncture points and courses of meridians

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi v quibus continentur, 1712

This excerpt and engraving about moxibustion are also from Englebert Kaempfer's Amœntitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi v quibus continentur….

The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire…, 1727

A later translation into English of the work of Englebert Kaempfer, who traveled in Japan in the early 1690's, as part of an historical survey of Japan