Ben cao gang mu dictionary
Zhibin Zhang, Unschuld, Paul U. · 2015
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"The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4500 historical illness terms."--Provided by publisher.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780520283954
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