Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1 : Chinese Historical Illness Terminology / Volume 1 / Volume 1 /

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. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- (Editor ), Zhang, Zhibin, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593. > Ben cao gang mu.
Ben cao gang mu (Li, Shizhen)
Medicine, Chinese.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
REFERENCE > Dictionaries.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Phytotherapie > Chine > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Medecine chinoise > Terminologie.
Medecine chinoise > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Materia medica, Vegetable > China > History > 16th century.
Medicine, Chinese > Terminology.
Medicine, Chinese > History > 16th century.
China.
Terminology.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (600 pages).
ISBN:9780520959651

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