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Explore the foundations of Chinese pharmaceutical history with the Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu: Volume 1. Published by University of California Press, this scholarly work provides access to the massive 1,600,000-character Ben cao gang mu encyclopedia. Originally compiled in the sixteenth century by physician Li Shizhen, this landmark text represents the highest point of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. This volume focuses on Chinese historical illness terminology and serves as the first installment in a comprehensive three-volume series. It details information regarding nearly 1,900 natural and man-made substances used in traditional medicine. This dictionary is an essential reference for researchers and students studying the history of natural history and materia medica works.

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This first volume in a three-volume series provides access to the massive 1,600,000-character Ben cao gang mu text.

The content covers Chinese historical illness terminology based on the sixteenth-century work of physician Li Shizhen.

This dictionary details descriptions of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances.

Published by University of California Press, this book serves as a major reference for premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge.

The text is built upon a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works and historical natural history encyclopedias.

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16 January 2015
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