Song court commissions encyclopedia of materia medica
1033
Emperor Renzong ordered a comprehensive revision of the imperial pharmacopoeia, dispatching scholars to catalog medicinal plants, minerals, and animal products from every province. The resulting Jiayou Materia Medica described over a thousand substances with their properties and preparations, systematizing Chinese medical knowledge and serving physicians for generations as the standard reference.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.