Medicine in China; A History of Pharmaceutics
by Unschuld, Paul U
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0520050258
- ISBN 13
- 9780520050259
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press [0-520-05025-8] 1986. (4to) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 367pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, indices. The rear endpapers have a small puncture and the dust jacket is faded at the spine. 'The application of herbal, mineral, animal, and manmade substances in medical therapy has been recorded in China since antiquity. In recent times, traditional Chinese drugs have been receiving increased attention not only in China but in other countries as well. The rich body of pharmaceutical knowledge that has been evolving over the centuries remains a major component of Chinese health care with Chinese healers still prescribing to their patients remedies based on formulas that were elaborated centuries ago". Locale: China. (Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Drugs, Healing, Health, Medicinal Herbs, Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149712
- Title
- Medicine in China; A History of Pharmaceutics
- Author
- Unschuld, Paul U
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520050258
- ISBN 13
- 9780520050259
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- This edition first published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Drugs, Healing, Health, Medicinal Herbs, Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health and Medicine;
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