Book copied on silk, <i>Prescription for Fifty-two Kinds of Diseases</i>- Hunan Museum
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Book copied on silk, Prescription for Fifty-two Kinds of Diseases
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Medium:Silk
Date:Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

Dimensions:Length: 31cm; width: 18cm

Origin: Excavated from Han Tomb No.3, Mawangdui, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 1973

This manuscript contains about 10,000 words that provide prescriptions and therapy for 52 kinds of diseases. There are 254 kinds of medicines and 283 prescriptions in the text, which is one of the earliest and most professional manuscripts on ancient medical science.


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