Hippocratic Medicine in China: Comparison with a 9th Century Chinese Manual on Bone Setting

Chinese history annals recorded cultural interchange between China and the Roman Empire during the Han dynasty. The first medical missionaries were Nestorian Christians from the Middle East who arrived in China in ad 635. They introduced Western medical practice into China. This paper compares the f...

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Main Author: Fu Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210491714000542