Wēnrè shǔyì quánshū 溫熱暑疫全書
Complete Book on Warm, Heat, Summer-heat, and Epidemic Disorders by 周揚俊 (Zhōu Yángjùn, zì Yǔzǎi 禹載, fl. late 17th c.)
About the work
An early-Qīng comprehensive treatise on warm-heat, summer-heat, and epidemic disorders in 4 juǎn, composed by the Sūzhōu physician Zhōu Yángjùn (a gòngshēng turned physician), printed Kāngxī 18 (1679). The book is one of the earliest systematic Qīng treatises on warm-disease, predating 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì’s Wēnrè lùn by some 70 years and providing one of the conceptual bridges between 吳有性 Wú Yǒuxìng’s late-Míng Wēnyì lùn and the mature Qīng wēnbìng synthesis.
Abstract
The four juǎn are organised around four disease categories: juǎn 1 wēnbìng (warm-disease); juǎn 2 rèbìng (heat-disease); juǎn 3 shǔbìng (summer-heat); juǎn 4 wēnyì (warm-epidemic). For each category Zhōu provides the canonical Nèijīng and Shānghán doctrinal background, the standard prescription apparatus, and his own clinical reflections.
The text occupies an important intermediate position in the Qīng wēnbìng tradition. Zhōu was active in Sūzhōu in the late Kāngxī era, the same milieu in which Yè Tiānshì (b. 1666) would later develop the mature wēnbìng doctrinal apparatus; the Wēnrè shǔyì quánshū provides the historical framework against which Yè’s later innovations should be read. 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí’s Wēnrè féngyuán (KR3eg003) takes Zhōu’s text as one of its principal critical targets.
Zhōu’s other major work is the Jīnguì yùhán jīng èrzhù 金匱玉函經二註 (KR3ef083, 1687), supplementing 趙以德 Zhào Yǐdé’s Yuán-period Jīnguì commentary with his own annotations. The two works together place Zhōu among the principal early-Qīng Sūzhōu physicians and a major influence on the Yè Tiānshì wēnbìng synthesis.
Translations and research
- Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine. Routledge, 2011 — treats Zhōu within the early-Qīng Sūzhōu medical milieu.
- Hinrichs, T. J. and Linda L. Barnes (eds.), Chinese Medicine and Healing. Harvard Belknap, 2013.
- Wēn-rè shǔ-yì quán-shū jiào-zhù (modern critical editions).
- No standalone English translation located.
Other points of interest
The work’s organising principle — separate analytical chapters for wēn / rè / shǔ / yì — is one of the more influential late-17th-century contributions to Qīng wēnbìng taxonomy; subsequent texts (e.g. 雷豐 Léi Fēng’s Shíbìng lùn, KR3eg002) adopt similar seasonal-pathogenic schemata.
Links
- ctext.org
- See also KR3ef083 (Zhōu’s Jīnguì commentary).
- 溫熱暑疫全書 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB