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EARLY TREATISE ON ACUPUNCTURE
CHURCHILL, James Morss. Traité de l’Acupuncture, ou Zin-King des Chinois et des Japonais; ouvrage destiné a faire connaître la valeur médicale de cette opération, et a donner les documens nécessaires pour la pratiquer.
Paris, Crevot, 1825. 8vo. Modern paper-covered boards.
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Rare first edition of the French translation of Churchill’s 1821 Treatise on Acupuncturation , the first English monograph on acupuncture. The ancient practice of acupuncture gained devotees among French doctors beginning with Dujardin in 1774, after French missionaries had learned about it in China and Japan. Churchill’s account aroused a wider interest in the practice, and the French translation, by R. Charbonnier, was perhaps even more influential than the English original. There was also a German translation in 1824.
With a contemporary owner’s signature on the title-page. In very good condition, with the slightly tattered top edge of the half-title strengthened and only a small marginal water-stain in the first six leaves. One of the earliest western accounts of acupuncture.
