With the encouragement and help of a chinese scholar liu ning pinuela later compiled a book on the basis of his collection of herbal drugs and prescriptions and published it under the supplemented materia medica making a remarkable contribution to the development of traditional chinese medicine 这位原本以传播天主教为己任的西洋传教士万万没有想到，他因慈善之心而萌发的善举竟为中国药物学增添了新的内容。
