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Mawangdui Tomb Three – Documents: I - The MedicalDocuments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2015

Donald J. Harper*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Extract

A surprisingly large number of texts, many heretofore lost to us, werediscovered in a lacquer box in Tomb Three at Mawangdui. (For a summary ofthe excavation and contents of the tomb see Early China 1[1975]:10-15.) Thescrolls had fused together as a result of being tightly packed in thelacquer box; after separation, two of the scrolls were found to contain sixseparate treatises on medicine as well as a set of illustrations oftherapeutic calisthenics.

Type
Books and Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Study of Early China 1976 

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