[Textual research on P. t.1061, a Tibetan veterinary medical scroll fragment of Dunhuang literature preserved in France]
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi (Beijing, China: 1980)
Short Title:
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2017/07/28/
Pages:
243 - 247
Sources ID:
92356
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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P. t.1061 preserved at the Manuscripts Department of the Bibiothèque Nationle de France, is a Dunhuang Tibetan veterinary medical manuscript that focuses on the surgical therapy of equine rhinopathy. The method of blowing a small quantity of ammonium chloride through a bamboo tube to treat horse nasal sinus diseases was described in the original scroll; if not effective, burn with a proper cauterization apparatus; if still ineffective, prick with a fine bloodletting needle; if still not effective, operate frontal trephination. The frontal trephination documented in P. t.1061 is by far the earliest record in Tibetan language of relative operation so far discovered.