Medicine in China. A history of pharmaceutics

Unschuld, Paul U.

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1986

About this Item

First edition, 4to, pp. xii, [2], 367, [1]; numerous illustrations throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The application of herbal, mineral, animal, and manmade substances in Chinese medical therapy . providing a description and analysis of the contents and structure of traditional Chinese pharmaceutical literature . Staring with the earliest systematic records of the materia medica of the third century B.C. Paul U. Unschuld has selected some 100 titles in his far-reaching examination of the history of Chinese pharmaceutics" (jacket blurb).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Medicine in China. A history of pharmaceutics
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Asia
  • China