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HOMMA, Gencho.

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Edo 1847-1859, Izumi-ya/Kawachi. Blue stitched wrs.,15 vols. bound in 17 fascicles, 16.6 x 25.7 cm., 74 color, 55 b.w. woodblock printeds, complete work, 15 uniform volumes,a very clean & solid copy. RARELY found complete. FIRST EDITION . . *** *** *** . . . A FAMOUS AND EARLY WORK ON TUMOROLOGY . . . LAVISHLY COLOR ILLUSTRATED BY WOODBLOCK PRINTS . . . * A RARE AND COMPLETE SET OF 17 VOLUMES: YOKA HIROKU together with the Supplement: ZOKU YOKA HIROKU. An important medical text on recognition & treatment of anthraces [carbuncle, or tumors]. . * THE COMPLETE SET: This set title was commonly catalogued by bibliographers as a 10 vol. set bound in 12 fascicles. This is correct for the first part of the title series. The second part, the supplement contains additional volumes, numbered 1-5. . The first part was published in 10 volumes in 1847, the supplement in 5 volumes, published 1859. It is not difficult to see how these two parts published at different times were not always put together by bibliographers. This work is now considered complete in 17 bound parts, consisting of 15 numbered volumes, including the supplements. . *** COLLATION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS: The first part contained 18 color and 27 b.w. woodcut illustrations. The supplement contains 56 color, 28 b.w. woodcut illustrations. . * PAGINATION: The pagination is: First Series: Vols. 1-10 [bound in 12 vols.] Vol.1: 40p.; vol.2: 27p.; vol.3: 17p.; vol.4a: 34p; vol.4b: 35-64p; vol.5: 25p; vol.6a:24; vol.6b: 25-48p.; vol.7: 19p.; vol.8a: 31p; vol.8b:32-64p; vol.9: 16p; vol.10: 46p. . Supplement Series: Vols.1-5 [bound in 5 vols.] Vol.1: 36p.; vol.2: 39p; vol.3: 39p.; vol.4: 37p.; vol.5: 45+2p. . * GALAXY ILLUSTRATED: . Mestler illustrated a very small percent of his books. He strictly illustrated exceptionally unusual, fascinating and unique examples. This work illustrates a large number of unusual and unique examples showing amputation, unusual diseases, strange growths, tumors and other unique and bizarre illness. . * HOMMA GENCHO [1804-1872]: The celebrated physician HOMMA used several "Go" [studio names]: Kiyokuken, Sohken & Sukaki, he was popularly known as Gencho. . Homma was a Rangaku-sha [student of Dutch learning] who studied under the famous Dutch physician PHILIPP FRANZ VON SIEBOLD, who lived on Deshima Island in Nagasaki bay. . Mestler devoted more than a page to Homma and this book, stressing the importance of the book, illustrations and the author. . Homma was one of founders of modern medicine in Japan, who was from the Mito Han-I. In the clan he was a surgeon and served the feudal lord of Mito [just outside of Edo or today's Tokyo]. . Homma performed early vaccination in Mito area, at a time when this was largely unknown. Homma was a pupil of Hanaoka, a famous physician an author of medical treatise. . Fujikawa stated about this work: ".splendid.caused a rise in Japanese surgery." See below, p.58 . Homma did an amputation of a thigh on a patient with gangrene in 1857, in 1858 did a lateral operation for stone and other difficult procedures including extirpation of varicocele with success." Fujikawa p.58 and illustrations in GALAXY, p.139. . Mestler stated: ".Japanese surgeons of more than a century ago, often employed the burning of moxa to cauterize certain kinds of external tumors.and a series of colored wood-block prints showing that practice in a particular case, with the successive state in the treatment. A timorous excretion [?] from the uterus was described and figured as was an almost fantastic tumor [sarcoma] of the scalp "like an 'open flower,' of an incurable type." GALAXY plate IV, figure C. . Other very unusual color illustrations show a human with "a kind of tumor in the form of a tail, like a dog's," and a "bloody tumor [hemangioma] of the knee, having some part hard and some part soft, with blood vessels seen like a snake" [the treatment of the latter tumor was by burning with a heated iron]. A "stony tumor" [calculus?] found in the urine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 34023201

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