A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge by Paul U. Unschuld

A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

Paul U. Unschuld

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The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the physician Li Shizhen recorded two millennia of medical observations, interpreti...

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