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Hong Kong apothecary : a visual history of Chinese medicine packaging / Simon Go.
LIBRA - Blank Collection RS159.5 .G6 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Wenzheng.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Packaging--China--Hong Kong--History.
- Drugs.
- Medicine, Chinese--History.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- History.
- Materia medica--China--Hong Kong--History.
- Materia medica.
- Drug Packaging--history.
- Drugs--Packaging.
- Hong Kong.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- History of Pharmacy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Packaging--history.
- Hong Kong.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- History of Pharmacy.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- Hong Kong Apothecary transports us to the exotic world of Eastern medicine, a world of oils, powders, and pills -- cures for every known ailment from impotency to opium addiction. As peculiar as "pink pills for pale people" are the packages containing these medicaments. Author Simon Go has combed Hong Kong's manufacturers, shops, and home medicine cabinets for years collecting the most compelling examples. The result is a visual cabinet of curiosities, a graphical pharmacopoeia. Hong Kong Apothecary presents the fascinating graphics and tantalizing descriptions of hundreds of ointments, herbal teas, infused oils, and other medicines. It gives us an insight into Chinese culture afforded only by examining the artifacts and customs of everyday life. Many of these medicines are no longer produced, making Hong Kong Apothecary a memoir of a rapidly disappearing culture.
- Contents:
- Rejuvenating design
- The origin of Chinese medicine
- About Chinese medicine packaging
- Chronology of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and landmark events
- Gou/plasters
- Dann/pellets
- Yun/pills
- Saan/powders
- Herbal teas
- Medicinal oils
- Tonic wines
- Medicine for men
- Medicine for women
- Medicine for children
- Design
- History
- Legends.
- Local Notes:
- Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 1568983905
- OCLC:
- 51898990
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