Catalogue of Chinese books and manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Hartmut Walravens ; introduction by Nigel Allan.

  • Walravens, Hartmut.
Date:
1994
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Credit: Catalogue of Chinese books and manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Hartmut Walravens ; introduction by Nigel Allan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gottfried Schramm: Der Arzneipflanzen- und Drogenschatz Chinas und die Bedeutung des Pen-ts'ao kang-mu als Standardwerk der chinesischen Materia medica. Berlin: Volk und Gesundheit, (1955). 71 pp. For one of the appendices to the Pen-ts'ao kang-mu, the Pin-hu mo-hsüeh , cf. Franz Hübotter: Die chinesische Medizin. Leipzig 1928, 178-191. Bernard E. Read: Chinese medicinal plants from Pen ts'ao kang mu, A. D. 1596. 3rd edition. Peiping 1936. XVI, 389 pp. Bernard E. Read; C. Pak: A compendium of minerals and stones used in Chinese medicine from the Pen ts'ao kang mu, by Li Shih-chên, 1597A. D. 2nd edn. Peiping 1936. VIII, 98 pp. Bernard E. Read: Chinese materia medica: I-V. Animal drugs. 1931. 322-444 nos. I. Domestic animals. II. Wild animals. III. Rodentia. IV. Monkeys and supernatural beings. V. Man as a medicine. VI. Avian drugs. 1932. 112 pp. VII. Dragon and snake drugs. 1934. 66 pp. VIII.Turtle and shell-fish drugs. 95 pp. IX. Fish drugs. 1939. 136 pp. X. Insect drugs. 1941. 213 pp. All mentioned papers by Read are offprints from the Peking Natural History Bulletin. On the author of the Pen-ts'ao kang-mu cf. Chang Hui-chien: Li Shih-chen, great pharmacologist of ancient China. Peking: Foreign Languages Pr., 1950. 67 pp. 60 11 title-page : Tseng-kuang Pen-ts'ao kang-mu. 4 t'ao, 24 pen. Ü M H Hi 5 01 Shang-hai Chin-chang t'u-shu-chii shih- yin [1936], ^ Revised by Chang Shao-t'ang. 31 SI Preface: Shun-chih 14 (1657), Chang Ch'ao-lin. Preface: Kuang-hsii 11 (1885), Chang Shao-t'ang. Preface: Shun-chih i-wei (1655), ^ ia Wu Yii-ch'ang. T'ao 4 contains: M ~fS M Additional title-page: Wan-fang chen-chien. 2 pen = 8 ch. Additional title-page: Pen-ts'ao kang-mu ín j 8 shih-i. 4 pen =10 + 2 ch. Chung-kuo i-yao , 149; Alte chinesische Medizin, 1.5; Unschuld, 126-134,139- 147; San-pai, 86-88; Klaproth.l53-161. Lithographed edition of Li Shih-chen's famous materia medica, based on the 1879 edn. (Disputable) revision by Chang Shao-t'ang. 20 (17) X 13.5 (12) cm. Provenance unknown. Í?*i 60 IIA I MARGIN TITLE: Pen-ts'aO kang-mu. M SE 3! ÍS M S Su-chiin Chang Ho-chu Yiin-chung Il chiao-ting. Illustrations ch. 2.3. Ch. 1 shang; 1 hsia/2; 3 shang; 3 hsia; 4 shang/chung; 4 hsia/6; 7/8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 16; 17 shang; 17 hsia; 18 shang; 18 hsia; 20/22; 23/25; 26/27; 28/29; 30; 31/33; 34; 35; 37/38; 39/40; 41/42; 43/44; 45/46; 47/48. Ref.: Courant 5250; SOAS: c.408.p,10 [edn. Shu-yeh-t'ang 1805]. This fragment of the Pen-ts'ao kang-mu may either belong to the 1784 Shu-yeh- t'ang, or the 1826 Ying-te-t'ang edn. which were both revised by Chang Yiin- chung, but preferably to the former.
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