Dongui Bogam
- Date
- 1610-1613 · confidence high
- Place
- Seoul, South Korea
- Credited to
- Heo Jun
- People
- 👤 Heo Jun1546–1615
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A 25-volume medical encyclopaedia that systematised East Asian medicine with an emphasis on prevention and local remedies. It was reprinted in China and Japan and is a UNESCO Memory of the World.
What it led to
- traditional Korean medicine (hanui)
- the spread of Korean pharmacopoeia in China and Japan