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Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine--sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth century sources,

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Author

Smith, Hilary A., author

Publisher

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503602090

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, History, Medicine

Updated

2026-03-25