Dan xi xin fa fu yu by Chu Chenheng, Chinese medical text

As trade routes with China opened in the 17th century, Chinese books began arriving in Leiden. This medical text is possibly the earliest Chinese book to arrive in the collection. It was printed in the 16th century, copied from a 13th–14th century source. This page includes herbal recipes for treating colds. Though he was interested in many languages, as far as we know Erpenius never learned Chinese. China, probably 1536 Chinese; paper

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