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567 abstracts ABSTRACTS Franz Rudolf A. Schmidt The Textual History of the Materia Medica in the Han Period: A System- Theoretical Reconsideration The purpose of the present essay is to throw light on the process of generating the materia medica in China. Western forms of medi- cal pluralism led to the appearance of the first known materia medica in approximately the 4 th century BC. In the East, by contrast, the emergence of a materia medica can merely be localized to a period certainly no later than the 2 nd century AD. Thus, existing theories suggest a gap of more than five centuries between the evolution of the materia medica in each of the two hemispheres. This gap, the author suspects, is much too large. The study shows that one can track four lineages of materia medica in the transmitted literature of the Han period. However, each lineage appears to be an upgraded form of materia medica . Thus, the emergence of a materia medica must have antedated these four lineages. The author concludes that it is precisely this multiple reproduction of a materia medica that reflects the human interest in establishing and consolidating an infrastruc- ture for
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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