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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances
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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances
Current price: $190.00
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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances
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Volume IX in the
series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances. The
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
, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.