Ben cao gang mu dictionary / edited by Zhang Zhibin, Paul U. Unschuld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Zhibin, 1953- editor.

Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- editor.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu.

Li, Shizhen.

Ben cao gang mu (Li, Shizhen).

Medicine, Chinese--History--16th century.

Medicine, Chinese.

Medicine, Chinese--Dictionaries.

Materia medica, Vegetable--China.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

History.

China.

Drugs, Chinese Herbal.

Medicine, Chinese Traditional.

Materia Medica.

Disease.

Medical Subjects:

Drugs, Chinese Herbal.

Medicine, Chinese Traditional.

Materia Medica.

Disease.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

History.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]-

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Volume 1. Chinese historical illness terminology

volume 2. Geographical and administrative designations

volume 3. Persons and literacy sources / edited by Zheng Jinsheng [and three others]

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780520283954

0520283953

9780520291966

0520291964

9780520291973

0520291972

OCLC:

880689767

Publisher Number:

40024490326

99961240098