Lai-goa-kho Khan-ho-hak

Lai-goa-kho Khan-ho-hak (English: The Principles and Practice of Nursing; Traditonal Chinese: 內外科看護學) is a Taiwanese-language human nursing textbook. The book was compiled by English M.D. G. Gushue-Taylor (戴仁壽) [cite news|title=On the trail of a humanitarian legacy|date=2000-07-24|publisher=Taipei Times|url=http://taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/07/24/44929/print|accessdate=2008-06-04|language=English] and Taiwanese Dua-lor Dan (陳大鑼). And, it was first published at Tainan, Taiwan in 1917, and widely regarded as a first work on the subject in Taiwanese.

Contents and themes

This book includes 40 chapters, 675 pages and 503 figures. Generally, it is a medical textbook that contains a fully comprehensive account of the anatomical, physiological, and human body’s knowledge available at the time of publication.

Given the motif of the book in the first chapter, it’s shown as follows.

cquote|Tē 1 Chiuⁿ “Seng-khu Phó•-thong ê Kò•-chō”

Kái-phò-ha̍k (anatomy), chiū-sī kho-ha̍k (science) ê chi̍t hāng, i ê bo̍k-tek sī beh káng-kiù seng-khu ê kò•-chō (structure) [Gushue-Taylor,G., Dûa-lor Dān: Lai-goa-kho Khan-ho-hak(The Principles and Practice of Nursing), Tainan, Taiwan, 1917.nan icon] .……

（Chaper 1: ″The structure of human body″: Anatomy, as is a part of science, and its object is studying the structure of human body…） Therefore, this book that had served as a link between past and future in Taiwan medical history. Moreover, it promoted the development of earlier Taiwan medicine localization [cite news|title=介紹本土最早的一本「內外科看護學」(THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF NURSING)|date=2002-05|publisher= Mei-ling Chen(Taiwan Zhang-Hua Christian Hospital History Museum)|url=http://www2.cch.org.tw/history/story68.htm|accessdate=2008-06-04|language=Chinese] .

References

ee also

*Tng-oe Hoan-ji Chho-hak (唐話番字初學 by John Van Nest Talmage, 1852)
*Chap-hang Koan-kian (十項管見 by Chhoa Poe-hoe(蔡培火), 1925)

External links

* [http://lgkkhanhouhak.blogspot.com/ 內外科看護學 (The Principles and Practice of Nursing)] nan icon zh icon