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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0067 00002
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628307
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Pak Ou (Luang Prabang)
Name of collection:
Private Collection of Mai Khamfoe Namavong
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Mai Nò from Ban Pak Chaek village
Subject matter:
Medical Treatise
Copyist:
Phò I Nang Yat (father of Ms. Yat) from Ban Pak Chaek village
Copying date in Gregorian:
1900 - 1999
Place of copying:
Pak Chaek village
Script:
Tham Lue
Writing support:
Mulberry paper
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
Yes
Manuscript cover dimension:
39.8 x 34 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
35.2 x 28.6 cm
Text block dimension:
31 x 26 cm
Number of pages:
88 pages
Number of blank pages:
16 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
Yes
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
The manuscript contains texts of various kinds of medical herbs and about the healing process. It is particularly used by a Mòya (a local healer). The contents tell various conditions of sickness with the titles in cycles. Some conditions are fever, fever with red marks, dysentery, chest tightness, fever with hot skin, toothache, gingivitis, black and red marks, hot hands and feet fever, cold hands and feet fever, stomachache, diarrhoea, colic, waistache, pulmonary tuberculosis, sow throat, severe headache, flatulence, baby died in the stomach, large pimple, nosebleed, dim-sighted, boil, fracture, and etc.
Other notes:
The manuscript is covered with a cotton cloth and sew the top with a cotton string.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ພື້ນເທົ້າຢາ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Phün Thao Yā]
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Chronicle of traditional medicine
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Lue
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