The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica
Author | : Shou-zhong Yang |
Publisher | : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780936185965 |
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Author | : Shou-zhong Yang |
Publisher | : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780936185965 |
Author | : Corinna Theisinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-12-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990602927 |
This text is written by the famous Confucianist and medical doctor Chen Xiuyuan (1753 - 1823 in Fu Jian), which was first printed in 1803."
Author | : Sabine Wilms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2017-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780991342952 |
This book is a literal translation of one of the earliest and most important classics of Chinese medicine and natural science: the Shén Nóng B'nc'o J'ng ? or "Divine Farmer's Classic of Materia Medica." Compiled in the third century CE but undoubtedly much older in content, it contains information on 365 substances that were considered to have beneficial effects on the human body.
Author | : Tuo Hua |
Publisher | : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780936185439 |
Publication of the first English language translation of this Chinese medical text bearing the name of the most famous Chinese doctor of antiquity, Hua Tuo, gives Western practitioners access to what is, perhaps, the premier proto-Daoist medical classic. In particular, this book is a great source of information on pulse diagnosis and is the locus classicus of the theory of warm supplementation, containing numerous fascinating herbal and alchemical formulas for both internal and external usage.
Author | : Shan Fu |
Publisher | : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780936185354 |
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2006-06-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521864267 |
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Author | : Sherwin B. Nuland |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2011-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307807894 |
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
Author | : Benjamin A. Elman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674036476 |
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Author | : Heinz Mehlhorn |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3642398243 |
This book intensively examines the efficacy of plant-derived products that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals. The chapters were written by renowned Chinese medical researchers and are supplemented by results obtained in German antiparasitic research projects. Parasites and emerging diseases are a major threat of our time, which is characterized by an enormous increase in the size of the human population and by an unbelievably rapid globalization that has led to the daily transport of millions of humans and containers with goods from one end of the earth to the other. Furthermore the slow but constant global warming offers new opportunities for many agents of diseases to become established in new areas. Therefore it is essential that we develop precautions in order to avoid epidemics or even pandemics in overcrowded megacities or at the large-scale farm animal confinements that are needed to secure a steady flow of food in the crowded regions of the world. Of course intensive research in the field of chemotherapy since 1900 has produced unbelievable breakthroughs in therapies for formerly untreatable and thus deadly diseases. However, a large number of untreatable diseases remain, as well as a constantly growing number of agents of disease that have developed resistances to standard chemical compounds. As such, it is not only worthwhile but also vital to consider the enormous amounts of information that have been obtained by human “high cultures” in the past. Examples from the past (like quinine) or present (like artemisinin, a modern antimalarial drug) show that plant extracts may hold tremendous potential in the fight against parasites and/or against vector-transmitted agents of diseases.
Author | : Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108428150 |
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.