Healing with poisons : potent medicines in medieval China /

"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At 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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Liu, Yan (Cultural historian) (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Medicine, Chinese. Traditional medicine. Medicine, Chinese Traditional Médecine chinoise. HISTORY / Asia / China Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book