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Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.
HARPER, Donald J.
1997 — "Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…
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