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Google doodle honors China's naturalist healer during the Ming Dynasty
Chinese legendary traditional healer during the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, is this Wednesday's object of tribute on Google's homepage with a patented doodle.
Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) will encounter an image of Li Shizhen, who was born July 3, 1518 and died in 1593.
Li is considered the greatest naturalist of China, according to The Confucius Institute Online.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica," which is called Bencao Gagmu, is Li's major contribution to medicine and took him 27 years to compile.
The Bencao Gangmu is a medical text with 1,892 entries, with details about more than 1,800 Chinese medicines and 1,094 herbs.
Li died before the book was officially published.
As in the past, clicking on the doodle will take the visitor to a Search Results page for Li Shizhen. — ELR, GMA News
