Compendium of Materia Medica

    本草纲目

    Li Shizhen

    The only English edition of the ancient masterpiece on traditional Chinese medicine

    Considered one of the key achievements of ancient Chinese civilization 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.

    To fill the void and make accessible to Western readers the full knowledge contained in this great scientific encyclopedia of China the Foreign Languages Press is now pleased to present the first full English translation of the entire Compendium of Materia Medica.

    ISBN 7-119-03260-7 Hardcover 265mm X 295mm 4397pp

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