《全体新论》插图来源的再考察——兼说晚清医疗教育的一段中印因缘

The Pictorial Sources of Benjamin Hobson's(1816—1873)Quanti xinlun

松本秀士、坂井建雄于2009年发表大文《〈全體新論〉に揭載される解剖図の出典について》,首次全面揭示《全体新论》插图的来源。本篇是松本文的补充,探讨《全体新论》二版正文后石印插图所源出,指出印度殖民地医疗事业开展时期的一部解剖学译著An Atlas of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body(1849),也是《全体新论》插图的主要来源。其书作者Federic Mouat,不但与合信认识,而且差不多是同期肄业于伦敦大学院。两人在中印两地各自展开医疗教育,除了引进人体新知,同时也宣扬种族等级意识,影响深远。

This paper is intended to supplement H.Matsumoto＇s pioneering studies of Benjamin Hobson＇s medical works.It has identified one of Hobson＇s major sources,F.Mouat＇s An Atlas of Anatomical Plates,which,unlike his other sources,were published outside Europe,in Calcutta in 1849.Mouat and Hobson were almost contemporaries at University College London in the 1830s,and both went to the Far East after completion of their medical training,Hobson to China as a missionary,and Mouat to India for career and adventure.Both became engaged subsequently in the local medical education,and in translating and composing medical textbooks in the local languages.Their works were instrumental,not only in bringing Western medical science to the East,but also in establishing a racial consciousness in the oriental mind,＂White acme,Black pit＂,with profound impacts.