Zōu Yìzhòng yīàn xīnbiān 鄒亦仲醫案新編
Newly Compiled Medical Case Records of Zōu Yìzhòng by 鄒亦仲 Zōu Yìzhòng 鄒亦仲 (late-Qīng / early-Republican physician).
About the work
A single-juǎn casebook of Zōu Yìzhòng — late-Qīng to early-Republican physician — in a xīnbiān 新編 (“newly compiled”) arrangement, suggesting a Republican-era re-editing of earlier case material. The opening of the hxwd _000.txt is a preface establishing the editorial framing and the author’s clinical reputation.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt opens with a preface (partially damaged in the source — some characters are illegible, marked □ in the transcription): “Mr Zōu Yìzhòng holds the saving of life as his concern. He used to say: ‘To study calligraphy and study the sword can only let one preserve oneself; not as good as to study the Yì 易 and study medicine, which can [missing characters] benefit things.’ He probes deeply into Heaven and the human, penetrates yīn and yáng — one may say he has not made a futile journey to Zhòngjǐng’s hall and returned, sufficient to be one in whom the people may abandon their fear of life [missing characters]. Since we [the editors] have studied medicine together with him, we have benefited very much, and our reed-grass-blocking has been suddenly opened. As for the Líng 靈, Sù 素, and Jīnguì 金匱 — the things in those books that are hardest to [missing characters] — for these he has assembled the high-discussions of later worthies broadly, taking them as evidence. Observing his clinical practice and prescription-formulation, however suspicious and complex the disease-presentation, he is always able to [missing] its place, with cobweb-trace and horse-trace, finding the thread of order at once. In his prescribing, he is determined to establish himself in invincible position, and is able to hit the disease-presentation directly, without any one-sided cold or one-sided heat — so that not one is unsuccessful, as drumstick to drum, and deep illnesses are largely raised up by it; he is acclaimed by all mouths wherever he goes. Now in this hour when popular-livelihood doctrine is urgently to be realised, medical doctrine should be among the most urgent…”
The “popular-livelihood doctrine” (民生主義 Mínshēng zhǔyì) reference is to the third of Sun Yat-sen’s Sānmín zhǔyì 三民主義 doctrines, anchoring the preface to the post-1924 / Republican era and confirming the xīnbiān recension as a Republican-era editorial project.
Abstract
Zōu Yìzhòng 鄒亦仲 was a late-Qīng to early-Republican physician, clearly active into the Republican era (the preface’s Mínshēng zhǔyì reference dates the editorial project to after 1924). Biographical data are otherwise thin; CBDB has no entry. The composition window 1870–1930 reflects this trajectory. The casebook is one of several Republican-era xīnbiān re-editions of late-Qīng clinical material under the editorial framework of the Sūn Yat-sen-era medical reform discourse.
Translations and research
No substantial European-language secondary literature located.
Links
- For the Republican-era medical reform context see Andrews 2014.
- Kanseki DB
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