Second edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Slightly worn edges, but very good inside. [vi], 558, vi(errata)pp. Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1928.
Frederick Porter Smith (1833-1888) was a medical missionary who was sent to China by the Weslyan Missionary Committee in 1863. He published his ‘Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China’ in Shanghai in 1871, and the present work by George Stuart (-1911) is a revised and expanded version. Arranged alphabetically, it list the Chinese vegetables under their Latin names (together with their Chinese characters and the Wade-Giles pronunciation) and provides the most comprehensive information on their habitat as well as their medicinal properties. The first edition was published in Shanghai shortly after Stuart’s death in 1911.
