Chinese materia medica ... - Read, Bernard Emms, 1887-1949.; Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. (Peiping, China, Peking Natural History Bulletin, 1931)
[I (pt. 1-5)] Animal drugs.--[II (pt. 6)] Avian drugs.--[III (pt. 7)] Dragon and snake drugs.--[IV (pt. 8)] Turtle and shellfish drugs.--[V (pt. 9)] Fish drugs.
The terminology is in Chinese, romanized Chinese and English; zoological terms also in Latin.
"A series upon drugs belonging to the animal kingdom, in which a special effort has been made to find the scientific identity of the drugs, with such explanatory notes upon them as may be found both in the Pen ts'ao and in modern literature."--v. [1] p. 1.
Reprinted in part from the Peking natural history bulletin.
Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.; Therapeutics -- Early works to 1800.; Materia medica -- China; Zoology -- China