Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Po...
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Main Author: | Liu, Yan (auth) |
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Language: | English |
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University of Washington Press
2021
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