Chinese medicinal herbs :
a modern edition of a classic sixteenth-century manual /
Li Shih-chen ; translated and researched by F. Porter Smith and G.A. Stuart.

Description

Main Author

Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593.

Related Names

Stuart, G. A. (George Arthur), -1911.
Smith, F. Porter (Frederick Porter), 1833-1888.

Language(s)

English

Published

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 2003.

Subjects

Medicine, Chinese Traditional > Medicine, Chinese Traditional / China.
History, 16th Century > History, 16th Century / China.
Plants, Medicinal > Plants, Medicinal / China.
Medicine, Chinese.
Medicinal plants > Medicinal plants / China.
Materia medica, Vegetable > Materia medica, Vegetable / China.

Note

Includes indexes.
"This Dover edition, first published in 2003, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1973 by Georgetown Press, San Francisco under the title Chinese medicinal herbs, which was, in turn, a translation of Li Shih-chen's Herbal Pen Tsáo of 1578" --T.p. verso.

Physical Description

508 p. ; 24 cm.

ISBN

048642801X

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