Liǔxuǎn sìjiā yīàn 柳選四家醫案
Selected Case Records of Four Masters, Edited by Liǔ [Bǎoyí] edited and annotated by 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí 柳寶詒 (zì Gǔsūn 谷孫, hào Guànqún 冠群, 1842–1901), of Jiāngyīn 江陰 (Jiāngsū).
About the work
An eight-juǎn anthology of selected case records of four early-to-mid-Qīng masters, edited with annotations by Liǔ Bǎoyí — the leading late-Qīng Jiāngyīn physician. The four selected masters are conventionally:
- Cáo Cúnxīn 曹存心 (Cáo Rénbó 曹仁伯, 曹存心, 1767–1834) — Liúyīng yīàn 留影醫案.
- Wáng Jiǔfēng 王九峰 (王九峰, late-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century) — Wáng Jiǔfēng yīàn.
- Gāo Bǐngjūn 高炳鈞 (Gāo Jǐntíng 高錦庭) — Gāo Jǐntíng yīàn.
- Cài Lěngān 蔡冷庵 (Cài Bǎoshàn 蔡寶善) — Cài Lěngān yīàn.
Each set of cases is presented with Liǔ Bǎoyí’s selective editing and his interlinear or appended evaluative annotations, in the tradition of píngzhù běn 評注本 (commented editions). The work is the principal late-Qīng anthological synthesis of the Jiāngsū / Jiāngnán wēnbìng / gānbìng clinical traditions and was widely used in late-Qīng and Republican-era Chinese medical schools as a clinical-pedagogical text. (See also the parallel KR3ep022 Zēngbǔ píngzhù Liǔxuǎn yīàn 增補評注柳選醫案 — a later supplemented edition with further annotations.)
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt of KR3ep021 opens directly with the case material; the editorial prefaces and Liǔ Bǎoyí’s introduction appear scattered through the subsequent files. No formal preface is preserved in _000.txt itself for this hxwd recension.
Abstract
Liǔ Bǎoyí 柳寶詒 (1842–1901, CBDB 84838) was the leading Jiāngyīn 江陰 (Jiāngsū) clinician of the late Qīng, founder of the so-called Liǔ-school approach to wēnbìng characterised by the systematic recovery of pre-Yè Tiānshì warm-disease theory — especially the fúqì wēnbìng 伏氣溫病 (“latent-qì warm disease”) tradition descending from Wáng Shūhé 王叔和’s commentary on the Shānghán lùn and the Sòng practitioners like Pāng Āncháng 龐安常. His own principal theoretical work is the Wēnrè féngyuán 溫熱逢源 (1882), which programmatically returns warm-disease theory to its Shānghán-tradition antecedents. The Liǔxuǎn sìjiā yīàn is the clinical companion to that theoretical work: by editing and annotating four early-Qīng to mid-Qīng physicians of the Jiāngsū tradition, he canonises the regional clinical inheritance against the perceived dominance of the Sūzhōu Yè Tiānshì school. The composition window 1880–1901 reflects his mature editorial decades; the work was first printed in 1904 by his disciples after his death.
The anthology is one of the most-used pedagogical casebooks of the late-Qīng and Republican-era wēnbìng tradition and is the principal vehicle through which Wáng Jiǔfēng’s and Gāo Jǐntíng’s clinical thought is transmitted (their own freestanding casebooks — e.g. KR3ep076, KR3ep077 Wáng Jiǔfēng yīàn — being smaller and less widely circulated).
Translations and research
Scheid, Volker. 2007. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626–2006. Eastland Press — major treatment of Liǔ Bǎoyí. Hinrichs and Barnes 2013, ch. 8.
Links
- See KR3ep022 for the supplemented edition.
- Kanseki DB
- 柳選四家醫案