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At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, c...

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Language:English
Published: University of Washington Press 2023
Online Access:https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749006/healing-with-poisons