Shīwēn shíyì zhìliáo fǎ 濕溫時疫治療法
Methods for Treating Damp-Warm Seasonal Epidemics by 何廉臣 (Hé Liánchén, 1861–1929)
About the work
A late-Qīng / early-Republican clinical handbook on damp-warm (shīwēn 濕溫) seasonal epidemics, by the Shàoxīng physician 何廉臣 Hé Liánchén. The text is a clinical-prescription companion to Hé’s more substantial Chóngdìng Guǎng wēnrè lùn (KR3eg006); together they constitute Hé’s principal contribution to the wēnbìng canon in the early Republican period.
Abstract
Hé Liánchén’s clinical practice in Shàoxīng spanned the late Qīng into the Republican period; his editorial and clinical-writing project centred on the systematic re-edition of the late-Qīng wēnbìng canon for the early-Republican Chinese-medical periodical and book trade. The Shīwēn shíyì zhìliáo fǎ belongs to this project: it presents Hé’s working clinical apparatus for damp-warm seasonal epidemics in the practical form needed by working physicians, organised around symptom-presentation and prescription rather than around theoretical exposition.
Hé’s doctrinal anchor is the 薛雪 Xuē Shēngbái Shīrè tiáobiàn tradition (KR3eg020) as transmitted through 王士雄 Wáng Mèngyīng’s Wēnrè jīngwěi (KR3eg008), with elaborations from the Shàoxīng-school (Yuèpài 越派) clinical practice. The work is closely related to the Shīwēn xīnlùn 濕溫新論 that Hé and his Shàoxīng-school colleagues developed in the early 20th century.
Dating is approximate. Hé’s principal active writing period was 1900–1929; the Shīwēn shíyì zhìliáo fǎ is conventionally placed in his middle-to-late career.
Translations and research
- Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine. Routledge, 2011 — treats Hé Liánchén within the Shàoxīng-school wēn-bìng tradition.
- Andrews, Bridie. The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014 — broader context on late-Qīng / Republican Chinese-medical periodical publishing.
- Scheid, Volker. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China. Duke UP, 2002.
- No standalone English translation located.
Other points of interest
The work is a representative practical-clinical product of the Yuèpài (Shàoxīng school), one of the most influential late-Qīng / early-Republican regional medical traditions, and a witness to the institutional infrastructure (Shàoxīng Medical Society 紹興醫學會, Shàoxīng yīyào xuébào journal) that Hé and his colleagues built for early-Republican TCM.
Links
- See KR3eg006 for Hé’s principal companion work.
- 濕溫時疫治療法 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB