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Description	English: Illustration of an open book showing two drawings of the human body. One drawing contains the various organs of the human body labeled in Latin, while the facing illustration contains double lines that indicate channels of qi/ki flow in the body, sometimes called acupuncture meridians. These were misinterpreted in the West as evidence of East Asian ignorance of anatomy. Specimen medicinae Sinicae, pls. 1 & 2.
Date	19 August 2013, 15:47:21
Source	Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A109178. Also showcased in the book: Hidden Treasure (New York, NY: Blast Books, 2012), p. 39. HMD call number: WZ 250 B7924s 1682.
Author	Specimen medicinae Sinicae : sive, Opuscula medica ad mentem Sinensium : cum figuris aeneis et ligneis / edidit Andreas Cleyer ...

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