Bāoshì hóuzhèng jiābǎo 包氏喉證家寶
The Bāo Family’s Treasured Manual of Throat Disorders by 包三述 Bāo Sānshù (Qīng laryngology practitioner; biographical particulars not recorded).
About the work
A single-juǎn family-tradition (jiābǎo 家寶) laryngology manual of the mid-Qīng. It opens with a yānhóu zǒnglùn 咽喉總論 (general discussion of throat disorders) — restating the standard doctrine that the shǎoyīn 少陰 sovereign-fire and shǎoyáng 少陽 ministerial-fire channels both network into the throat and account for the bulk of laryngology — followed by an extensive tiáomù 條目 (item-list) of named conditions: single, double, and rosary-string rǔé 乳蛾, hóuyōng 喉癰, hóujūn 喉菌, xiányōng 頷癰, miànyōng 面癰, tuōsāi yōng 托腮癰, dāshé 䵟舌, hóubì 喉閉, chánhóu fēng 纏喉風, and so on through to a final numbered series running up to seventy-two (or seventy-one in this witness) characteristic conditions. The text closes with a comparative scholarly remark: “the seventy-two kinds of throat disorder are treated in the Jiāo-clan recension KR3em023, the Wú-clan recension, and the Zhāng-clan recension KR3em024, with diagnostic and treatment differences in each. The present work largely agrees with the Jiāo-clan recension but differs in places — the reader must be alert to the differences. There is also the Tiěyá Dàorén 鐵崖道人 seventy-two kinds of throat disorder and seventy-two kinds of mouth-and-teeth disorder, the printing of which awaits further occasion.”
Prefaces
The witness preserves no formal preface or postface; the work opens directly with the zǒnglùn, and the closing scholarly note quoted above is the only paratext.
Abstract
Bāo Sānshù is not recorded in CBDB, in Zhōngyī dàcídiǎn 中醫大辭典, or in the standard biographical references with any biographical detail beyond the bare attribution of this work; his lifedates and place of activity are not securely fixed. He stands in the same Qīng qīshíèr zhǒng yānhóu 七十二種咽喉 (seventy-two throat-disorders) genre as KR3em023 Jiāoshì hóukē zhěnmì and KR3em024 Hóukē zhǐzhǎng, and his own colophon explicitly positions his text as a recension parallel to and largely in agreement with the Jiāo-clan witness. The composition window is set conservatively at 1700–1850 reflecting the maturity of the seventy-two-condition catalogue genre as a mid-to-late-Qīng phenomenon; specialists working from collations may well wish to tighten it. The catalog meta gives only “清” without finer dating.
Doctrinally the work is mainstream: it diagnoses by pulse (xián shù 弦數 for repletion-fire; shǎoyīn xīnmài wēi 少陰心脈微 for deficiency-fire), treats with the standard qīngrè jiědú 清熱解毒 strategy plus qùfēng huàtán 去風化痰, and combines insufflation powders (青藥, 黃藥, 三黃散) with decoctions (六味湯 family, xījiǎo dìhuáng tāng 犀角地黃湯, liánggé sǎn 涼膈散) and external compresses. Its principal contribution is the consolidated seventy-two-condition catalogue rather than any sharp doctrinal innovation.
Translations and research
- No standalone Western-language translation or monographic study located.
- The text is briefly noted in 耿鑒庭, Zhōngguó zhōngyī hóukē fāzhǎn shǐ 中國中醫喉科發展史, in the chapter on Qīng jiāchuán 家傳 laryngology lineages.
- Modern reprint via the Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī shànběn gǔjí cóngshū 海外回流中醫善本古籍叢書.
Other points of interest
The closing colophon’s explicit citation of the parallel Jiāo, Wú, and Zhāng recensions is one of the clearest internal witnesses to the late-imperial circulation of the “seventy-two throat-conditions” genre across competing family lineages. The reference to Tiěyá Dàorén — most plausibly an allusion to the Yuán-Míng-period scholar-physician 楊維楨 Yáng Wéizhēn (hào Tiěyá) — points to a longer pre-Qīng pre-history of the genre that the present text appears to know but does not fully reproduce.
Links
- 包氏喉證家寶 (jicheng.tw 漢學文典)
- Kanseki DB
- Parallel “seventy-two throat-conditions” lineages: KR3em023, KR3em024, KR3em026.