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Kindle online PDF Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor full

2 minutes ago - COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://gwencheayana-readbook.blogspot.com/?file=0990602907 | PDF READ ONLINE Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor | and Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor written by Tan Yunxian and translated by Lorraine Wilcox with Yue Lu is the earliest known writings by a female doctor in China It consists of one volume with cases surrounded by two prefaces and three postscripts Tan Yunxian primarily treated women in her practice and these records reflect insights into the pathology of female patients that male practitioners might not have been privy t

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  3. Description : and Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor written by Tan Yunxian and translated by Lorraine Wilcox with Yue Lu is the earliest known writings by a female doctor in China It consists of one volume with cases surrounded by two prefaces and three postscripts Tan Yunxian primarily treated women in her practice and these records reflect insights into the pathology of female patients that male practitioners might not have been privy to At this time a wealthy woman could not see a male doctor without having a male relative such as her father husband or son present Modesty was the utmost female virtue The male doctor questioned the husband not the woman herself He might not be allowed to see her face He needed to ask for permission to feel her pulse Therefore because Tan was a woman she was allowed by her female patients to do things that a male doctor could not and this intimacy in turn led to a better diagnosis of the patients problems Lorraine Wilcox has annotated and explained Tans original cases by both telling us the source text of the formulas Tan used and what the probable diagnosis was from both Western and Eastern viewpoints The complete formulas used by Tan have been added and have been compared to the original formulas with a complete explanation of Tans modifications Wilcox then discusses the reasons for such a diagnosis and illustrates a number of other details that help us better understand each case There were undoubtedly many other women doctors in ancient China but they left no record or the record was not preserved Women doctors are

  4. occasionally mentioned in case studies written by men or in other types of literature Therefore we are lucky that Dr Tan Yunxians manuscript survived through the ages as it helps us to understand the challenges and illnesses that women of the Ming faced and

  5. Kindle online PDF Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor full

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