Fúwēn zhèngzhì shíyàn tán 伏瘟證治實驗談
Clinical-Experience Talks on the Syndrome-Differentiation and Treatment of Latent Plague by 蔣樹杞 (Jiǎng Shùqǐ, 民國)
About the work
An early-Republican treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of latent-plague (fúwēn 伏瘟) — a subcategory within the fúqì 伏氣 latent-pathogen warm-disease tradition — in 1 juǎn, completed Mínguó 9 (1920). The work was preserved in the Sānsān yīshū 三三醫書 collectanea edited by 裘慶元 Qiū Qìngyún (Hángzhōu, 1924), where it stands alongside 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí’s Wēnrè féngyuán (KR3eg003) as one of the principal late-Qīng / Republican statements of latent-pathogen warm-disease theory.
Abstract
The book systematically expounds the aetiology, symptomatology, diagnostic markers, and prescription apparatus for fúwēn — a doctrinal category within the broader fúqì current, derived ultimately from the Nèijīng dictum that “winter injury by cold produces warm-disease in spring” 冬傷於寒，春必溫病. Jiǎng’s clinical material is recognisably Republican-period — late-Qīng / early-Republican JiāngZhè practice, with explicit attention to differential diagnosis against Western disease categories.
Jiǎng’s doctrinal position is polemically anti-Western-medicine; the Zhōngyī cídiǎn notes that the polemic is “one-sided to the point of unfairness”. This places the work in the Republican-era doctrinal-political milieu in which Chinese medicine was institutionally embattled and many Chinese-medical writers responded with categorical defence of the indigenous tradition. The book is doctrinally aligned with the Wēnbìng zhèngzōng (KR3eg012) of 王德宣 Wáng Déxuān in this respect, though Wáng’s polemic is internal (against 吳塘 Wú Jūtōng) rather than external (against Western medicine).
Jiǎng’s clinical material is generally rated as practically useful despite the polemical framing.
Translations and research
- Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity. UChP, 2014 — context on the Republican-period defence of Chinese medicine.
- Andrews, Bridie. The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
- No standalone English translation located.
Other points of interest
The work is one of the principal latent-plague monographs of the early Republican period, paired with 劉吉人 Liú Jírén’s Fúxié xīnshū (KR3eg028) and Liǔ Bǎoyí’s Wēnrè féngyuán (KR3eg003).