Fredericka Houser (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. 1st English Edition. Hardback bound in cloth-covered boards with dark brown titles on the front along with Tibet lettering. Only defect to note is fading of the title on the spine. Internally unmarked. Tibetan medicine today enjoys a rapidly growing interest in the West. One long fold-out illustrated page. 103 pages plus the fold-out. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; volume one: lightly crimped corners, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; inscribed by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn thus, tsl of 1975 German 1stedn; 8vo ptd wraps, brown titles spine & front with Tibetan words - 'rlun', 'mkhris pa' and 'bad kan' drawn by the Tibetan artist Sherab Palden Beru; unread NF: Volume 1 ONLY: 103pp, folding diagram, bibl, notes, diagrams, figures, texts, letter from Dalai Lama. Author is "a specialist in internal medicine who works with blessing of Dalai and guidance of his personal psysician". illustrated by two pages of b/w. block-prints from the book 'rGyud bzi'; illustrated large three-page foldout (Root A - Arrangement; Root B - Diagnosis; Root C - Therapy) tipped-in at rear; preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; "Little has been known of Tibetan medicine in the West until the present day. In 'the forbidden land', visited by few westerners, medicine was taught in special medical schools and practised chiefly by monks, who had to undergo a very long training. These medical schools were always closed to Western visitors. Since one could not meet Tibetan doctors, it was impossible to study Tibetan medicine. Without oral instruction by competent Tibetan doctors, this unfamiliar area of medicine remains inaccessible even today. It was the custom in Tibet for the pupil to be initiated orally by the teacher. The strict secrecy surrounding Tibetan medicine in the past has now been relaxed since in 1959 the Dalai Lama was forced to leave his country, amongst them twelve doctors. When the headquarters of the Dalai Lama were moved to the north Indian Himalayas, a medical school was set up there; the author, a specialist for internal medicine, & trained also in neurology, psychiatry and tropical medicine has made a study of Tibetan medicine with the help of the Dalai Lama's personal physician, interpreters, doctors & scholars culminating in the publication of this excellent work.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First English Text / First Print. Hardback copy in biege cloth boards with brown lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 103pp. Fold out chart to rear. English text. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no underlined or highlighted text, no notes in margins. (8/6).