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Ben cao gang mu : 16th century Chinese encyclopedia of materia medica and natural history : the complete Chinese text / by Li Shizhen ; translated and annotated by Paul U. Unschuld.
LIBRA RS180.C5 L4513 2021 v.2, v.8-v.9
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593, author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--China--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Natural history.
- China.
- Medicine, Chinese--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Natural history--China--Pre-Linnean works.
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]-
- Summary:
- "The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history attributed to the author 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 practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Introduction, history, pharmacology, diseases and suitable pharmaceutical drugs
- v. 2. Waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, salts
- v. 3. Mountain herbs, fragrant herbs
- v. 4. Marshaland herbs, poisonous herbs
- v. 5. Creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, cereals
- v. 6. Vegetables, fruits
- v. 7. Woods
- v. 8. Clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, animals with shells
- v. 9. Fowls, domestic and wild animals, human substances.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu.
- Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu. English
- ISBN:
- 0520379896
- 9780520379893
- 9780520379916
- 0520379918
- 9780520379923
- 0520379926
- OCLC:
- 1196240636
- Publisher Number:
- 99986503510
- 99986503638
- 99986503622
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