{"product_id":"ben-cao-gang-mu-volume-viii-9780520379916","title":"Ben Cao Gang Mu Volume VIII","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume VIII in theBen cao gang museries offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells.   TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Prolegomena \u003cbr\u003e 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature \u003cbr\u003e 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu \u003cbr\u003e 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) \u003cbr\u003e 2. Notes on the Translation \u003cbr\u003e 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590\u003cbr\u003e 4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu. Chapters 38 - 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Clothes and Utensils. Chapter 38\u003cbr\u003e Group: Clothes and Silk\u003cbr\u003e Group: Utensils and Further Items\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Worms\/Bugs. Chapter 39\u003cbr\u003e Worms\/Bugs I.Born from Eggs Group, First\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Worms\/Bugs. Chapter 40 \u003cbr\u003e Worms\/Bugs II. Born from Eggs. Final Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Worms\/Bugs. Chapter 41 \u003cbr\u003e Worms\/Bugs III. Born from Transformation Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Bugs Worms\/Bugs. Chapter 42\u003cbr\u003e Worms\/Bugs IV. Born from Moisture Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 43.\u003cbr\u003e [Animals with] Scales I. Dragon Group. \u003cbr\u003e [Animals with] Scales II. Snake Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 44 \u003cbr\u003e [Animals with] Scales III.\u003cbr\u003e [Animals with] Scales IV. Fish without Scales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 45 \u003cbr\u003e Shells I. Tortoises and Tortoises Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 46 \u003cbr\u003e Shells II. Clams Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e 5. Weights and measures.\u003cbr\u003e 5.1 Measures of capacity.\u003cbr\u003e 5.2 Measures of weight.\u003cbr\u003e 5.3 Measures of length. \u003cbr\u003e 5.4 Measures of the size of pills. \u003cbr\u003e 6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 38 – 46 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402948583767,"sku":"9780520379916","price":127.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520379916.jpg?v=1730481938","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ben-cao-gang-mu-volume-viii-9780520379916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}