Li Shih-chen
1518–93
Chinese naturalist and pharmacologist. The compiler of China’s most important pharmacopoeia, the Pen ts’ao kang-mu.
Source
Dictionary of Ming biography.
Bibliography
Dictionary of Ming biography: Dictionary of Ming biography 1368-1644. Edited by L. Carrington Goodrich and Chaoying Fang. 2 vols. New York and London: Columbia University Press. 1976.
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