Xīn Biān Zhěn Mài Xū Zhī 新編診脈須知
Newly Compiled Essentials of Pulse Examination by 吳洪 (Wú Hóng, fl. mid-Ming, 明)
About the work
A one-juan Ming pulse-primer by Wú Hóng. The jicheng.tw file KR3eb047_001.txt is an empty stub; this entry relies on external bibliographic witnesses. The work is recorded in mid-to-late Ming medical bibliographies as a single-juan pulse-primer in the xū zhī 須知 (“essentials a practitioner needs to know”) genre, characteristic of the mid-Ming medical book trade and aimed at a beginning-physician readership.
Prefaces
No text in the jicheng.tw file. The conventional dating to the mid-Ming follows the catalog meta and the xū zhī genre convention; Wú Hóng is otherwise undocumented.
Abstract
Wú Hóng 吳洪 is essentially unknown beyond the catalog attribution. The work belongs to the same Ming popular-medicine print culture that produced KR3eb045 and KR3eb046 — commercially oriented pulse compendia aimed at the working physician rather than at scholarly readers. With the empty jicheng.tw file, no detailed analysis is possible from this corpus alone.
Translations and research
- No Western-language translation exists.
- No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Wikidata: not assigned.
- 新編診脈須知 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB