Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX

Volume IX in the  Ben cao gang mu  series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances.   The  Ben cao gang mu  is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). 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 t