Although interests in human anatomy had a long tradition in the Western world, a forensic book such as Song Ci's did not appear in Western works until Roderic de Castro's book in the 17th century. There have been several modern books published about Song Ci's writing and translations of it into English. This includes W.A. Harland's "Records of Washing away of Injuries" (1855), Herbert Giles' "The Hsi Yuan Lu, or Instructions to Coroners" (1924), and Dr. Brian E. McKnight's "The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China" (1981).