Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China

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 deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devote...

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Language:English
Published: Seattle University of Washington Press 2021
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