Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIII : Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells / Li Shizhen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shizhen, Li, Author.

Series:

Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--China--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Medicine, Chinese--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Chinese.

Natural history--China--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (968 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

1. Prolegomena

2. Notes on the Translation

3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590

4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu 本草綱目. Chapters 38 - 46

Section Clothes and Utensils. Chapter 38

Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 39

Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 40

Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 41

Section Bugs Worms/Bugs. Chapter 42

Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 43

Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 44

Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 45

Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 46

Appendix

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)

ISBN:

0-520-97698-3

OCLC:

1240585325