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

Han dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...

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''), 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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{{reflist Han dynasty texts Chinese medical texts