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Andreas Cleyer (1634–98) was a practising physician who was employed by the Dutch East India Company  at Dejima, an island in Nagasaki harbour in Japan.  While there he became interested in oriental medical practice. Specimen medicinæ Sinicæ consists of translations from Chinese medical works by the Jesuit Michał Piotr Boym which were drawn together and edited by Cleyer.

The book contains some thirty images of the Chinese practice of pulse diagnostics. The images here show acu-tracts joining the chest to the foot (L) and the pericardium to the hand (R).

Citation:
13. Andreas Cleyer, Specimen medicinae Sinicae sive opuscula medica ad mentem Sinensium (Frankfurt, 1682),
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
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