Ben Cao Qiu Zhen / 本草求真 (An Inquiry into the Materia Medica)
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Type of publication
Book
Title
Ben Cao Qiu Zhen / 本草求真 (An Inquiry into the Materia Medica)
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Year Created
[originally written in 1769]
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Translator's annotation
Markings on the book confirm that this is a book printed officially for formal study during the Qing dynasty.
There is a translated excerpt from the Bencao qiuzhen /本草求真 in the book "Chinese Life Sciences: Introductory Readings in Classical Chinese Medicine” by Paul Unschuld [1]. The excerpt is on Chai Hu /柴胡 (bupleurum).
Other text:
Jian sheng chen / 監生臣 (Health department [?])
Jiang xi Fu zhou fu yi / 江西州俯宜 (Made in Fuzhou prefecture Jiangxi province)
Jian sheng chen huang gong [xiu] / 監生臣黃宫綉 (written by Huang Gong Xiu)
Chen zhi huang xue chang jiao zi / 臣姪黃學昌校字 (and corrections by his nephew Huang Xue Chang)
Jian sheng chen / 監生臣 (Health department [?])
Jiang xi Fu zhou fu yi / 江西州俯宜 (Made in Fuzhou prefecture Jiangxi province)
Jian sheng chen huang gong [xiu] / 監生臣黃宫綉 (written by Huang Gong Xiu)
Chen zhi huang xue chang jiao zi / 臣姪黃學昌校字 (and corrections by his nephew Huang Xue Chang)
Bibliographic Citation
[1] Unschuld, Paul (1986) Medicine in China: A History of Pharmaceutics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Item Type (DCMI Type vocabulary - See: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-type-vocabulary/2003-11-19/)
Text
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Owner of the Collection
State of Oregon
Source (the collection in which this object is found)
Kam Wah Chung Collection
KWC Collection ID
File cabinet in KWC interpretive center with files of “unknown books”