Lai-goa-kho Khan-ho-hak

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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)^[1] and Taiwanese Dûa-lor Dān(陳大鑼). It was first published at Tainan, Taiwan in 1917, including 40 chapters; 675 pages; 503 figures, and widely regarded as a first work on the subject in Taiwanese. Generally speaking, 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.

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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)^[2] .……

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（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^[3].