File:Drawing of the human body showing acupuncture meridians..JPG

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English: The illustration shows double lines indicating channels of qi/ki flow in the body, sometimes called acupuncture meridians. These were misinterpreted in the West as evidence of East Asian ignorance of anatomy. Specimen medicinae Sinicae, pl. 4.
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Source Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM),http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A109179. Also showcased in the book: Hidden Treasure (New York, NY: Blast Books, 2012), p. 38. HMD call number: WZ 250 B7924s 1682.
Author Specimen medicinae Sinicae : sive, Opuscula medica ad mentem Sinensium : cum figuris aeneis et ligneis / edidit Andreas Cleyer ...

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