Chinese materia medica
Subtitle: turtle and shellfish drugs, avian drugs, a compendium of minerals and stones
By: [by Bernard E. Read]
Contributors: Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593; Read, B. E. (Bernard Emms), 1887-1949
Series: Chinese medicine series -- 3
Publisher: Southern Materials Center
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Taipei
Language: eng; chi
Subjects: Materia medica; Early works to 1800; Therapeutics
Other titles: Peking natural history bulletin.; Turtle and shellfish drugs.; Avian drugs.; Compendium of minerals and stones.
Notes: Each part issued with individual title page.

Based on the Pen tsáo kang mu by Li Shih-chen, A.D. 1597.

Reprint of the 1932-1937 ed. published by the Peking Natural Hisotry Bulletin.

Terminology in Chinese, romanized Chinese, and English; zoologica terms in Latin.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.