Author: Li Shizhen
Translator & Annotator: Luo Xiwen
Order No. 5000
ISBN: 7119032607
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Pub Year: 2004
Pages: 4,460
Language: English
Size: 7.5 x 10.5
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Considered one of ancient China's key achievements for its wealth of information on medicine, mineralogy, botany, zoology, and natural science, Compendium of Materia Medica covers the long period between remote antiquity and the Ming dynasty when the book was first published in 1593.
As early as the 17th century, Compendium of Materia Medica was introduced through translations to other countries in Asia, Europe and America as an essential work for the study of Chinese medical science, and ancient Chinese science, technology, culture and history. However, with the exception of a complete Japanese translation published in Japan in the 1970s, only parts of the Compendium (mainly to do with pharmacological therapeutics) have been translated. The more difficult sections about history, culture and science have never been translated; only abridged versions were available in the West.
This is first full English translation of the entire Compendium of Materia Medica. It is a careful rendition of the original text and explanatory notes place the contents in the context of modern scientific research.
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