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Healing with Poisons : Potent Medicines in Medieval China /

"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 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 employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing...

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Main Author:	Liu, Yan (Author, VerfasserIn.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle University of Washington Press [2021]
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Traditional medicine. Medicine, Chinese. Electronic books.
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