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Quote by Li Shizhen
虽曰医家药品，其考释性理，实吾儒格物之学。
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The statement connects medical study with Confucian learning. Although the subject is called physicians’ medicine, examining the properties and principles of medicines is also a way of “investigating things,” a central form of learning in the speaker’s tradition. It presents careful study of medicine as intellectual inquiry, not merely practical treatment.
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