Retrieval methods of ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine and their application / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

The number of ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine is tremendous, it is thus of great impor-tance to make full use of them for the inheritance and development of the cause of traditional Chinese medicine. Ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine can be retrieved either by using of dictionaries, bibliographies, books arranged according to subjects, monographs, and other nonmedical materials or by using of databases of ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine. Different retrieval methods of ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine and their application were thus described in this paper.