Compendium of Materia Medica

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 Compendium of Materia Medica"

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"Compendium of Materia Medica, Pharmacy works, 52 vols，in Ming dynasty Li's essays, published in 1590. The book is over 190 million words contained there are 1892 kinds of drugs, the medical side of 11096 collection, drawing exquisite illustrations of 1160, divided into 16 60. Of inheritance and summarize the achievements of the previous herbalism based on the combination of long-term learning, an interview with the accumulation of a large number of pharmacological knowledge through practice and study, which lasted for decades and woven a masterpiece. The book not only positive test in the past errors of herbalism, a combination of a lot of scientific information, scientific drug classification, and integration into advanced biological evolutionary thought, and reflects the wealth of clinical practice. This book is also a worldwide impact of natural history books.