The ''Maishu'' (), translated into English as the ''Book on Vessels'', is an early

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

medical text that discusses the vessels of the body. It was unearthed as part of the Zhangjiashan cache of texts in the 1980s.Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D. S. Yates, ''Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247'', Leiden: Brill, pp. 14, 48 It was found with another medical text, ''Book on Therapeutic Pulling'' (''

Yinshu The ''Yinshu'' () is an ancient Chinese medical text from the Western Han dynasty discovered in 1983 as part of the Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts. History and content The ''Yinshu'' was one of the two medical texts (the other being the '' Maishu ...

''), as well as two legal texts, a maths book and a dialogue illustrating military and political issues. The ''Book of Vessels'' was first transcribed in 1989. The contents include a discussion of the symptoms of 67 diseases.

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