Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, Paperback/Hilary A. Smith - Stanford University Press

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Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine--sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi.
Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth centur.
In Forgotten Disease , Hilary A.
Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine--sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi