Zēngdìng Yèpíng Shāngshǔ quánshū 增訂葉評傷暑全書
Expanded and Revised “Complete Book on Summer-Heat Disorders” with Yè Tiānshì’s Annotations by 張鳳逵 (Zhāng Fèngkuí = Zhāng Hèténg, ?–1635) — original; with annotations by 葉桂 (Yè Guì, 1666–1745); expanded by 葉霖 Yè Lín (Dàoguāng / Xiánfēng era)
About the work
A composite text in 4 juǎn: the base monograph is Zhāng Fèngkuí’s Shāngshǔ quánshū 傷暑全書 (originally 2 juǎn, completed Tiānqǐ 3 = 1623), the earliest specialised treatise on summer-heat disorders (shǔbìng 暑病, zhòngshǔ 中暑) in the Chinese medical canon; this is overlaid with interlinear annotations attributed to Yè Tiānshì (1666–1745); the whole is then expanded and re-edited by a late-Qīng compiler (the standard recension is attributed to 葉霖 Yè Lín of the Dàoguāng / Xiánfēng era, who added supplementary materials and case-records).
Abstract
The base text by Zhāng Fèngkuí is significant as the first Chinese monograph dedicated specifically to summer-heat as a distinct disease category — a categorisation that the wēnbìng school would later formalise under the shǔwēn 暑溫 rubric. Zhāng wrote in the late-Míng amid the climatic shocks of the Tiānqǐ era; the work systematises the older Nèijīng and Shānghán references to summer-heat disorder and adds his own clinical experience.
The Yè-attributed annotations are characteristically pithy and clinical, in the style of the Línzhèng zhǐnán yīàn. Their authenticity is uncertain — the late-Qīng editorial pattern was to enhance the prestige of a Míng work by adding ostensible Yè annotations, and the Shāngshǔ quánshū annotations may follow that pattern. The expanded recension that survives bears the Dàoguāng / Xiánfēng layer of editorial supplement; the catalog text follows this recension, hence the date bracket of 1623 (Zhāng’s original) through ca. 1854 (the late-Qīng expansion).
The work is one of the standard wēnbìng-tradition references for summer-heat disorders alongside 周揚俊 Zhōu Yángjùn’s Wēnrè shǔyì quánshū (KR3eg032) and 王士雄 Wáng Shìxióng’s Wēnrè jīngwěi (KR3eg008).
Translations and research
- Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine. London: Routledge, 2011 — treats summer-heat disorder within the Qīng wēn-bìng taxonomy.
- Zhōng yī rén wù cí diǎn 中醫人物詞典 (Shanghai: Shanghai cishu, 1988) — entry on Zhāng Fèng-kuí / Zhāng Hè-téng.
- No standalone English translation located.
Other points of interest
Zhāng’s death in the 1635 Lǐ Zìchéng siege of Yǐngzhōu (recorded in his Míng shǐ biography) places the Shāngshǔ quánshū among the late-Míng medical texts whose author met a violent end during the dynastic collapse — its tone of urgent practical advice is to be read in that context.