Shānghán jiǔshí lùn 傷寒九十論
Ninety Discourses on Cold Damage by 許叔微 (Xǔ Shūwēi, zì Zhīkě 知可, 1080–1154, 宋)
About the work
A one-juan Southern-Sòng (1132) compendium of 90 Shānghán clinical cases, each presented as a brief narrative followed by 許叔微 Xǔ Shūwēi’s doctrinal analysis. The work — one of the earliest large-scale Chinese medical case-collection compilations — is a foundational text of the Sòng-period clinical literature, anticipating the case-record (yī àn 醫案) genre that would become central to late-imperial Chinese medical writing.
Abstract
The composition date 1132 (Shàoxīng 2) is given by Xǔ’s preface. Xǔ Shūwēi — jìnshì of 1132 — is one of the most influential Southern-Sòng Shānghán commentators, working in the lineage of 朱肱 Zhū Hóng (Huórén shū, KR3ef010) and the Sòng校正醫書局 textual tradition. His three principal Shānghán works are the Jiǔshí lùn (KR3ef044), the Shānghán bǎi zhèng gē 傷寒百證歌 (KR3ef061), and the Shānghán fā wēi lùn 傷寒發微論 (KR3ef063); together they form a unified case-collection / pedagogical / doctrinal triplet.
Translations and research
- Goldschmidt, Evolution of Chinese Medicine (2009) — Xǔ Shūwēi treated in chapter 7.
- Furth, Charlotte. “Producing Medical Knowledge through Cases: History, Evidence, and Action,” in Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (University of Hawai’i, 2007) — for the Chinese medical case-record tradition starting from Xǔ.
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Sòng-Yuán Shānghán xué shù yán-jiū (1988).
- No substantial English-language translation located.
Other points of interest
The Jiǔshí lùn is widely considered the earliest extant Chinese medical work explicitly organized as a case-collection — making it the conceptual ancestor of the entire late-imperial yī àn 醫案 (case-record) genre.
Links
- ctext.org
- See KR3ef061, KR3ef063 (the other Xǔ Shūwēi Shānghán works).
- 傷寒九十論 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB