STUART (George Ashur).
Chinese Materia Medica - Vegetable Kingdom. Extensively revised from Dr. F. Porter Smith's Work.
The revised and expanded edition
A study Chinese plant life and its medicinal properties.
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.
