Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History Ser. [More in this series]
Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History Ser. ; v.8 [More in this series]
Summary note
Volume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practi.
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Language note
In English.
ISBN
0520976983 ((electronic bk.))
9780520976986 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2020946743
OCLC
1240585325
Doi
10.1525/9780520976986
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