Yuzuan yizong jinjian

Described as "one of the best treatises on general medicine of modern times", it was a project sanctioned by the Qianlong Emperor and published by the Imperial Printing Office.

[6] It also contains what is "probably the largest ensemble of illustrations in a single Chinese medical text", with some 484 such depictions of the human body, ranging from images of children's hands to a "one-page array of 24 anuses".

[8] An initiative of the Qianlong Emperor that was announced on 17 December 1739,[9] the Yuzuan yizong jinjian was published in 1742 by the Imperial Printing Office,[2] which designated it as a national textbook.

[10] The text had some eighty contributors, including thirty-nine members of the Imperial Academy of Medicine,[2] most of whom came from the Jiangnan region,[3] specifically the southern provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

[11] Imperial Physicians[b] Wu Qian (吳謙) and Liu Yuduo (劉裕鐸) served as editors-in-chief,[12] under the supervision of Manchu official Ortai.