Preparation of a catalogue with a preliminary portrayal of the contents of ca. 100 handwritten volumes with medical contents of the 18th through the early 20th century from China.

在DFG资助的早期项目中，详细描述了由柏林国家图书馆和柏林达勒姆民族学博物馆收藏的881卷中国16世纪至20世纪中期的医学内容。这些文本的可用性以前所未有的方式拓宽了中国历史治疗概念和实践研究的主要来源领域。几十年来，中医历史学家几乎只关注印刷的中文文本。然而，它们的内容受到各种伦理、意识形态和财政约束的限制。相比之下，大多数手写文本仅供个人使用，而不是用于出版。在这里，人们发现记录了许多方面的卫生保健知识和实践，这些都是印刷文献所没有的。这些问题包括道德问题，如堕胎，如何最好地赚钱（包括欺骗病人）的讨论，在印刷文献中消失已久的治疗方法等等。这些文本的作者包括私人家庭和非专业从业者，流动和民间治疗师以及受过专业训练的医生，药剂师和魔术师，学生和其他人。包含在这些手写卷中的数据允许比印刷文献提供的更全面和更真实的前现代中国医疗保健服务图像。保罗·u·文树德（Paul U. Unschuld）和郑金生（ZHENG Jinsheng）对早期项目结束后的881卷内容进行了调查，标题为：中国传统疗法。从16世纪到20世纪初的柏林手稿集。莱顿，波士顿：布里尔，2012年，共三卷，共计2800多页。这套丛书引起了人们对这些资源的广泛兴趣。在布里尔卷出版后，柏林国家图书馆收到了越来越多的要求提供数字副本的请求。在对其余100卷的内容进行编目和初步描绘后，柏林保存的整套手写卷将开放供进一步研究。

In an earlier project funded by DFG, 881 handwritten volumes with medical contents of the 16th through mid-20th century from China, held by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Ethnology Museum Berlin-Dahlem, have been described in detail. The availability of these texts has broadened the realm of primary sources for research on historical Chinese therapeutic concepts and practice in an unprecedented way. For many decades, historians of Chinese medicine have almost exclusively focused on printed Chinese texts. Their contents, though, are limited through various ethical, ideological, and also financial constraints. In contrast, most of the handwritten texts have been written for personal use only, not for publication. Here one finds documented numerous aspects of health care knowledge and practice that are absent from printed literature. These include ethical issues such as abortion, discussions of how to best make money (including cheating patients), therapies long-lost in printed literature, and others more. The authors of these texts include private households and lay practitioners, itinerant and folk healers and professionally trained physicians, pharmacists and magicians, students and others. The data included in these handwritten volumes permit a much more encompassing and realistic image of pre-modern Chinese health care delivery than printed literature could offer. The survey of contents of the 881 volumes following the conclusion of the earlier project was published by Paul U. Unschuld and ZHENG Jinsheng under the title: Chinese Traditional Healing. The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the early 20th Century. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012, in three volumes totaling more than 2.800 pages. This set of volumes has stimulated a wide interest in these sources. Request for digitalized copies have been received in increasing numbers by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin following publication of the Brill volumes. With the cataloguing and preliminary portrayal of the contents of the remaining 100 volumes the complete set of handwritten volumes held in Berlin will be opened for further research.