医药学巨著《本草纲目》
The “Compendium of Materia Medica” (《本草纲目》) is a book. It came out in 1596, during the Ming Dynasty. It is about medicine. It can help people stay healthy.
The writer of the book is Li Shizhen. He did a lot of work in his life. He traveled far and read over 800 old books.
Now, we can see 1,892 kinds of medicines, more than 1,000 pictures and 10,000 prescriptions (处方) in the book.