Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 3 : Persons and Literary Sources

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 third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators. "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 1900 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 first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4500 historical illness terms."--Provided by publisher Cover Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgments I. Introduction 1. The Ben cao gang mu Project 2. The Two Conflicting Origins of Chinese Medicine and Pharmaceutics 3. Chinese Materia Medica Literature 4. The Sources Cited 4.1. Materia Medica and Medical Texts 4.2 Sources Beyond Materia Medica and Medical Literature 5. The Dictionary Entries 5.1. Bibliographical Entries: 5.2. Biographical Entries: II. Persons and Literary Sources III. Appendices Appendix A Chinese Dynasties Appendix B Index of Substance Entry (SE) in Alphabetical Order Appendix C List of Entries of Names of Persons Appendix D List of Entries of Literary Sources Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PERSONS AND LITERARY SOURCES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- III. APPENDICES -- Appendix A. Chinese Dynasties -- Appendix B. Index of Substance Entry (SE) in Alphabetical Order -- Appendix C. List of Entries of Names of Persons -- Appendix D. List of Entries of Literary Sources