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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151616303321

Autore

Linfu Hua

Titolo

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2 : Geographical and Administrative Designations / / Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96555-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 pages)

Disciplina

615.3/210951

Soggetti

Medicine, Chinese - History - 16th century

Medicine, Chinese

Materia medica, Vegetable - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Volume of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Project."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- I. INTRODUCTION -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Appendix A. Chinese Dynasties -- Appendix B. Numbers of Pharmaceutically Relevant Substances Mentioned in Connection with Geographic and Administrative Designations -- Appendix C. Index of Entries of Geographic and Administrative Designations

Sommario/riassunto

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.