Boym's "<italic style="font-style: italic">De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus</italic>": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*

Solos Ioannis; Helioti Maria; Mei HONG; Yuan LIANG

doi:10.1007/s11655-019-3227-z

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Boym's "De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*

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- Boym's "De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*
- Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine Vol. 27, Issue 5, Pages: 379-383(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Foundation for PIHMA Research and Education, Phoenix AZ, USA
  2.Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture, Phoenix AZ, USA
  3.Institute of Chinese Medical History and Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing (100700), China
  4.Institute of Basic Theory in Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing(100700), China
- Author bio：
  
  Prof. LIANG Yuan, E-mail: zhongyijichu7@126.com
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s11655-019-3227-z
  CLC：
- Published：01 May 2021，
  
  Published Online：04 January 2020，
  
  Accepted：20 June 2018
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Solos Ioannis, Helioti Maria, Mei HONG, et al. Boym's "De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*. [J]. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine 27(5):379-383(2021)
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Solos Ioannis, Helioti Maria, Mei HONG, et al. Boym's "De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*. [J]. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine 27(5):379-383(2021) DOI： 10.1007/s11655-019-3227-z.

摘要

Abstract

Upon his untimely death

Michal Boym (1612–1659) left behind an enormous written legacy; covering a diverse range of interests in fields such as Chinese linguistics

cartography

botany

zoology

philosophy and medicine. This article attempts to examine Boym's

De indiciis morborum ex linguae coloribus & affectionibus

(

The signs of disease on the tongue

colors and affections

)

a translation of a previously unidentified Chinese text. The text specifically deals with the subject of tongue diagnosis

in relation to contagious diseases that were still raging in the17th century China. Arriving to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)

Boym was able to personally witness the early development of tongue examination as an independent specialty; he recognized its significance and tried to incorporate it into his ultimately unfinished Chinese medical corpus. Boym's work eventually facilitated the assimilation of tongue observation in European medicine during the 19th century.

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Michal Boymtongue diagnosisChinese medicineJesuit mission

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Boym's "De Indiciis Morborum ex Linguae Coloribus et Affectionibus": The Earliest Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Manual Published in Europe, Identification of Original Chinese Text, Peculiarities of Printed Edition and Its Impact on European Medicine*

DOI：10.1007/s11655-019-3227-z

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