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Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Physicians and the Samarkand Hospital
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Tamerlane's practice of capturing not just artisans and scholars, but entire medical teams from conquered cities. They focus on the Chinese physicians taken during the 1404 campaign against the Ming dynasty — how their knowledge of pulse diagnosis, herbal pharmacology, and acupuncture blended with Persian humoral medicine (Unani) and Mongolian bone-setting traditions in Samarkand's dar al-shafa (hospital). The episode covers Tamerlane's own leg injury and his reliance on a captured Chinese surgeon named Zhang, the translation of Chinese…
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