Huáng Dànwēng yīàn 黃澹翁醫案
Medical Case Records of Old Man Huáng Dàn by 黃述寧 Huáng Shùníng 黃述寧 (hào Dànwēng 澹翁, late-Qīng physician), preserved by Qiú Jíshēng 裘吉生 and edited for print by Zhōu Zhèn 周鎮 (xiǎonóng 小農, biéshǔ Bóhuá 伯華) of Wúxī 無錫 in 1920 (Mínguó 9).
About the work
A two-juǎn casebook (with two further juǎn of Fùfāng 附方 supplementary prescriptions) by the late-Qīng physician Huáng Shùníng. The hxwd _000.txt opens with an editorial Xiǎo xù 小敘 (short introduction) by Zhōu Zhèn dated 1920 (Mínguó 9 / 民國九年) recording the rescue-from-manuscript of the work by Qiú Jíshēng 裘吉生 — the early-Republican Shàoxīng medical publisher who also rescued KR3ep029 Huāyùnlóu yīàn — and the editorial preparation for printing.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt opens with the Xiǎo xù 小敘 (short introductory note): “The Huáng Dànwēng yīàn 黃澹翁醫案 in two juǎn with the Fùfāng 附方 in two juǎn is from the collection of Mr Qiú Jíshēng 裘吉生 of Shàoxīng. It was post-mailed to Wúxī, where I [Zhōu Zhèn] was charged with editorial fixing. With my slender talent and shallow knowledge, and lacking a duplicate to collate against, I corrected only some fifty-odd characters; the literary expression and tone I have left as it was. Examining Mr Huáng’s own statement, in ‘epoch-perversity dangerous illnesses’ (時邪危疴) and in ‘regulating the mixed syndromes’ (調理雜症) he was both completely successful, and the Fùfāng also has many confirmed prescriptions; to transmit this to the age is enough to benefit the medical forest and to make the old learning shine. So I have written these few words to record my admiration. Mínguó nine [1920], first month. Zhōu Zhèn of Wúxī, xiǎonóng, with the biéshǔ Bóhuá, respectfully recorded.”
This is the editorial frame; no preface by Huáng Shùníng himself survives.
Abstract
Huáng Shùníng 黃述寧 (hào Dànwēng 澹翁) — late-Qīng physician, otherwise obscure. The internal evidence and the 1920 rescue-and-printing trajectory place him in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The composition window 1850–1920 reflects this trajectory: the case-material is mid-to-late Qīng, the editorial preparation and first printing are early Republican (1920). The work was rescued from manuscript by Qiú Jíshēng — the Shàoxīng Yīyào xuébào 醫藥學報 publisher who systematically gathered late-Qīng manuscripts for the Sānsān yīshū 三三醫書 collectanea — and edited by Zhōu Zhèn of Wúxī.
Translations and research
No substantial European-language secondary literature located. On Qiú Jíshēng’s editorial project see modern Chinese studies of the Sān-sān yī-shū.
Links
- Related Qiú Jíshēng / Shàoxīng Yīyào xuébào rescue: KR3ep029 Huāyùnlóu yīàn.
- Kanseki DB
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