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Ben cao gang mu dictionary

By Unschuld , Paul U.;Zhang , Zhibin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780520283954, 0520283953
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20429155 bytes)
Pages
v. 24 cm\769
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

"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

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