An index to selected Japanese medical literature of Pre-Meiji times.

This is an index to a series of 5 offprints by Mestler entitled "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association from 1954-57. Copies of the offprints are bound after the index. They are as follows:

Pt. I. Medical history and biography. General works. Anatomy. Physiology and pharmacology. Bull. Med. Lib. Ass., 42 (1954) 287-327.

Pt. II. Acupuncture and moxibusion. Bathing. Balneotherapy and massage. Nursing, pediatrics and hygiene. Obstetrics and gynecology. Ibid, 42, 468-500.

Pt. III. Urology, syphilology and dermatology. Surgery and pathology. Ibid, 44 (1956) 125-159.

Pt. IV. Ophthalmology, psychiatry, dentistry. Ibid, 44, 327-347

Pt. V. Biblio-historical addenda. Corrections. Postscript. Acknowledgments. Ibid, 45, 164-219