Compiled in the late Ming dynasty, Li Shi-zhen's Lakeside Master's Study of the Pulse is still used and regarded as on of the best primers on this important diagnostic modality within Chinese medicine. Although this translation has not retained the meter and verse of the original, it is the most faithful English rendering of Li's actual words available today. This book is one of the most concise and authoritative texts on pulse examination within the Chinese literature. No serious student of Chinese medicine can afford to be ignorant of this seminal text.