Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

Free Download Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu: Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology By Paul U. Unschuld; Zhang Zhibin
2015 | 600 Pages | ISBN: 0520283953 | PDF | 14 MB
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 1,900 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 4,500 historical illness terms.

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