A History of Chinese Medicine
By Unknown Author.
Description
"The history of Chinese medicine begins with a myth...". So opens this western account of medicine in China from the earliest times to the People's Republic. Drawing on popular mythology and folklore, this book describes how early Chinese philosophy (Daoism) and cosmology (yin and yan, and the five elements) crucially affected the development of Chinese medicine. Surgical techniques, acupuncture, the use of medicinal plants and drugs, smallpox vaccination and gynaecology are some of the wide variety of medical areas developed by the Chinese, to the extent that by the 10th cen...
ISBN(s)
0748604294, 9780748604296
