A book summarizing China's achievements in ancient pharmacology.

While practicing medicine, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, made field trips to various places, collected folk prescriptions, extensively collected specimens and personally tested the properties of drugs. After long-term unremitting efforts, he wrote a summative pharmaceutical masterpiece Compendium of Materia Medica, which is rich in content, detailed in textual research and accompanied by a large number of illustrations. Later, it was translated into many languages, became an important document of world medicine, and was known as the "encyclopedia of oriental medicine".

So choose D.