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Taoism and Chinese Religion

Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 5, part 3

Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin

by Joseph Needham

The volume of Needham's great history of Chinese science that surveys Chinese alchemy chronologically, from the early elixir makers through Ge Hong and the Tang alchemists. Written with Ho Ping-Yü and Lu Gwei-Djen, it also documents the many cases of elixir poisoning.

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