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...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle
University of Washington Press
2021
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