Gugeup ganibang (Prescriptions for Emergency Treatment), Volume 6 (2006)

Gugeup ganibang (Prescriptions for Emergency Treatment) is a medical text compiled and published in 1489, the twentieth year of King Seongjong of Joseon, in eight volumes bound as eight books. It is the most complete of Korea's books on emergency medicine, dividing illnesses into 127 categories, such as stroke and headache, and gathering together their treatments. This copy is a woodblock re-engraving (beongakbon) of an edition originally printed with Eulhae-type movable metal type (eulhaejabon); the fact that it bears the collection seal of Kim Bu-ryun, pen name Seorwoldang (1531–1598), indicates that it is a sixteenth-century printing. As an extremely rare surviving eonhae (vernacular Korean translation) medical text, it is a highly important resource not only for traditional Korean medicine but also for the study of the Korean language.

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Where it is

Region

Gangseo-gu, Seoul

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Treasure · 보물