Fèi Shéngfǔ xiānshēng yīàn 費繩甫先生醫案
Medical Case Records of Master Fèi Shéngfǔ by 費繩甫 Fèi Shéngfǔ 費繩甫 (Fèi Yǔpéng 費禹彭, 1851–1914), of Ménghé 孟河 (Jiāngsū).
About the work
A single-juǎn clinical casebook of the late-Qīng Ménghé physician Fèi Shéngfǔ — grandson of the great Fèi Bǎixióng 費伯雄 (1800–1879), the founder of the modern Ménghé Fèi family medical lineage. The opening of the hxwd _000.txt is a section Yī, Jīngluò bìng 一、經絡病 (“Section one: channel-collateral diseases”) with cases of gānyáng 肝陽 ascendance with damp-phlegm entering the channels — paradigmatic late-Qīng Ménghé clinical signature.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt opens directly with the case material under the syndrome heading. No formal preface in _000.txt.
Abstract
Fèi Shéngfǔ 費繩甫 (Fèi Yǔpéng 費禹彭, 1851–1914) was the principal late-Qīng / early-Republican representative of the Ménghé Fèi family — the most famous of the four great Ménghé medical lineages (Fèi, Mǎ, Cháo, Hé). He was the grandson of 費伯雄 Fèi Bǎixióng (1800–1879), whose Yīchún shèngyì 醫醇賸義 (1863) is the foundational mid-nineteenth-century statement of Ménghé clinical doctrine. Fèi Shéngfǔ moved to Shànghǎi in 1893 and became the principal Ménghé Fèi-family clinician of the foreign-concession period, alongside 丁甘仁 Dīng Gānrén (1865–1926) and Cáo Yǐngfǔ 曹穎甫 (1866–1937).
The composition window 1880–1914 reflects his mature clinical decades through to his death. The casebook was compiled by his disciples in the years following his death and was first printed in the early Republican period. Together with KR3ep024 Dīng Gānrén yīàn and KR3ep006 Zhāng Yùqīng yīàn, it forms the principal documentary record of late-Qīng / early-Republican Shànghǎi-Ménghé clinical practice.
Translations and research
Scheid, Volker. 2007. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626–2006. Eastland Press — substantial treatment of the Ménghé Fèi family. Hinrichs and Barnes 2013, pp. 224–227.
Links
- Related Ménghé casebooks: KR3ep024 Dīng Gānrén yīàn, KR3ep015 Mǎ Péizhī yīàn, KR3ep005 Hé Dànān yīàn.
- Kanseki DB
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