"Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, with such abandoned glee, to making these things happen?"
Written records of the Chinese experience with cancer treatment date back to the time of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huang di nei jing), 2nd century BC. This ancient book addresses symptoms similar to those of esophogeal, uterine and bone cancer.
This is a first draft of a guide to what might be called science for poets. Chinese poets and other authors grew up in a culture that gave cosmology a central place in the understanding of the state and of the body. Literati could expect of their readers
What were the qualifications of physicians in ancient China? Who judged them? Were they unique to medicine? Few records survive from the centuries in which medicine emerged from the domain of the hereditary artisan to become a cumulative tradition, with i