Chénshì xiǎo’ér dòuzhěn fānglùn 陳氏小兒痘疹方論
Mr Chén’s Discourse on Recipes for Children’s Smallpox and Eruptive Fever by 陳文中 Chén Wénzhòng (撰)
About the work
The Chénshì-prefixed variant title of the same Southern-Sòng paediatric smallpox treatise catalogued as KR3ej053 Xiǎo’ér dòuzhěn fānglùn. Both hxwd entries are recensions of Chén Wénzhòng’s 陳文中 single-juǎn foundational treatise on paediatric smallpox, the canonical wēnbǔ 溫補 (warming-supplementation) counterpart to Qián Yǐ’s qīngxiè 涼瀉 (cooling-purging) doctrine. The hxwd recension transmitted as KR3ej056 is editorially identical in substance to KR3ej053, including the same yú àn 愚按 commentary layer added by the Míng paediatrician Xuē Jǐ 薛己 (1487–1559).
Abstract
For the full substantive treatment, see KR3ej053. In brief: Chén Wénzhòng (CBDB fl. 1169–1184), Héānláng pàn Tàiyījú jiān Hànlín liángyī 和安郎判太醫局兼翰林良醫 of the Southern-Sòng court, articulates the doctrine of sānhuìyèdú 三穢液毒 (Three Foul-Liquid Poisons of fetal origin) as the etiological substrate of smallpox-eruption disease; develops a four-way biǎolǐ xūshí 表裡虛實 (surface/interior, vacuity/repleteness) classification of clinical presentations; and prescribes the signature wēnbǔ formulary — shíyīwèi mùxiāng sǎn 十一味木香散, shíèrwèi yìgōng sǎn 十二味異功散, shēnqí nèituō sǎn 參耆內托散, ròudòukòu wán 肉豆蔻丸 — to be deployed when the clinical signs indicate zhēn hán wài jiǎ rè 真寒外假熱 (genuinely cold interior with falsely-hot exterior). The yú àn layer by Xuē Jǐ adds Míng-period case histories that mediate Chén’s wēnbǔ doctrine with Xuē’s own bǔtǔ 補土 (earth-supplementing) school.
The hxwd corpus’s preservation of both this Chénshì-prefixed recension and the non-prefixed KR3ej053 Xiǎo’ér dòuzhěn fānglùn reflects the multiple recensional traditions of the text in the Míng and Qīng editions: Xuē Jǐ’s editorial recension and the earlier non-annotated text-only recension circulated as separate book-objects. The catalog meta entry’s bare dynasty: 宋 (rather than 南宋) is editorial slippage; CBDB confirms Chén Wénzhòng as a Southern-Sòng late twelfth-century figure.
Translations and research
See KR3ej053 for substantive literature. The two entries should be consulted together.
Other points of interest
The hxwd double-recensioning of Chén Wénzhòng’s Dòuzhěn fānglùn under both titles (KR3ej053 and KR3ej056) is itself a marker of the work’s editorial richness. The Míng (Xuē Jǐ-edited, 1525 ff.) and Qīng (Sìkù-recensioned) editions circulated separately. The CLAUDE.md project workflow treats them as separate cataloging items per the hxwd meta; substantively they are recensions of one underlying Sòng text.
Links
- 陳氏小兒痘疹方論 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB
- See KR3ej053 for the principal entry.