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Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica

1578Major

Li Shizhen completes the Bencao Gangmu, describing 1,892 drugs and over 11,000 prescriptions. It corrects earlier errors and stays a reference for Chinese medicine and natural history.

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