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Studies in the History of Natural Sciences  2020, Vol. 39 Issue (2): 209-228    DOI:
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Research into the Reference Texts and Academic Communication Networks behind the Compilation of A Brief Discussion of Western Medicine (Xiyi Lüelun)
ZHANG Daqing
Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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Abstract  This paper describes the translation and compilation of the Xiyi lüelun (The Art and Science of Surgery), the first textbook of Western surgery in modern China. Through Benjamin Hobson's education and clinical training background, as well as clues provided in his letters and hospital reports, the paper analyzes the reference textbooks used when Hobson translated and edited Xiyi lüelun, and explores the original source books for it. The paper also discusses his academic communication network, and points out that Xiyi lüelun is a comprehensive and practical clinical textbook, compiled through the selection of a few influential textbooks of surgery circulating in the Western medical world at that time, combined with the practical experience of Western physicians in diagnosis and treatment of common diseases in China.

Key words： Benjamin Hobson      Xiyi lüelun (The Art and Science of Surgery)      history of surgery     
Received: 15 July 2019      Published: 22 June 2021
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ZHANG Daqing. Research into the Reference Texts and Academic Communication Networks behind the Compilation of A Brief Discussion of Western Medicine (Xiyi Lüelun). Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2020, 39(2): 209-228.

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