Book on Vessels

The Book on Vessels (Mai shu 脈書) is an early Han dynasty medical text that discusses the vessels of the body. It was unearthed as part of the Zhangjiashan cache of texts in the 1980s.[1][2] It was found with another medical text, Book on Therapeutic Pulling (Yin shu), as well as two legal texts, a maths book and a dialogue illustrating military and political issues.[1]

Book of Vessels was first transcribed in 1989.[1] The contents include a discussion of the symptoms of 67 diseases.[2]

References

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247, Leiden: Brill, pp. 14, 48
Angela Ki Che Leung, Qizi Liang (2009), Leprosy in China: A History, Columbia University Press, p. 22, ISBN 9780231123006CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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[Barbieri-Low-1] Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247, Leiden: Brill, pp. 14, 48

[Leung-2] Angela Ki Che Leung, Qizi Liang (2009), Leprosy in China: A History, Columbia University Press, p. 22, ISBN 9780231123006CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)