Yòukē yīyàn 幼科醫驗
Verified Cases of Paediatric Medicine by 秦昌遇 Qín Chāngyù 秦昌遇 (zì Jǐngmíng 景明, hào Guǎngyě shānrén 廣野山人, late-Míng physician, c. 1550s–1630s), of Yúnjiān 雲間 (Sōngjiāng 松江, Jiāngsū).
About the work
A single-juǎn paediatric casebook by the late-Míng Sōngjiāng physician Qín Chāngyù — one of the most influential paediatricians of the late Míng and early Qīng. The hxwd _000.txt is a header marker only; the substantive text begins in _001.txt. The work documents Qín’s clinical practice in paediatrics — a specialism for which he was widely renowned — and is one of the earlier casebooks specifically dedicated to yòukē 幼科 (paediatric medicine).
Prefaces
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Abstract
Qín Chāngyù 秦昌遇 (zì Jǐngmíng 景明, hào Guǎngyě shānrén 廣野山人 and Yúnjiān bùyī 雲間布衣) was a Sōngjiāng 松江 (modern Shànghǎi suburb) physician of the late Míng, conventionally dated to c. 1550s–1630s in modern Chinese reference works (CBDB has no securely matched entry). He is the author of two important specialist works in the yòukē and zázhèng traditions: this Yòukē yīyàn 幼科醫驗 (“Verified Cases of Paediatric Medicine”) and the Zázhèng yīyàn 雜症醫驗 (“Verified Cases of Mixed Disorders”) — companion casebooks in the yīyàn (clinically-verified) genre — and the standard paediatric reference work Yòukē jīnzhēn 幼科金針 (“Golden Needle of Paediatrics”). See also KR3ep100 Yīyàn dàchéng 醫驗大成 for a related compilation.
The work is one of the principal late-Míng paediatric casebooks, falling within the tradition that descends from Wàn Quán’s 萬全 (1495–1580) KR3ej0010-area paediatric writings and from the imperially-commissioned paediatric portion of the Yīzōng jīnjiàn 醫宗金鑑. The composition window 1600–1644 reflects Qín’s mature decades through to the fall of the Míng. Qín is buried in Sōngjiāng and is the first major figure of the Sōngjiāng / Shànghǎi paediatric tradition.
Translations and research
For late-Míng paediatric medicine in general see Furth, A Flourishing Yin (1999); Hsiung Ping-chen 熊秉真, A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China (Stanford UP, 2005); and the Chinese-language Zhōng-yī ér-kē-xué shǐ 中醫兒科學史 surveys.
Links
- See also Qín Chāngyù’s KR3ep100 Yīyàn dàchéng 醫驗大成.
- Kanseki DB
- 幼科醫驗