Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances Volume 9

by Li Shizhen

Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances.

The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520379926
• ISBN13: 9780520379923
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 1084 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"