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Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine\nby Hilary A. Smith\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hilary A. Smith\nTitle: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nEdition: ABR\nISBN-13: 9781503603448\nISBN-10: 150360344X\nRRP: \u00A321.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAround the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine\u2014sudden 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 cha.