Jīngxiàotáng yīàn 旌孝堂醫案
Medical Case Records of the Hall of Filial Distinction Anonymous compiler.
About the work
A single-juǎn anonymous late-Qīng casebook from the JiāngZhè medical milieu, transmitted under the studio-name Jīngxiàotáng 旌孝堂 (“the Hall of Filial Distinction”). The compiler is not identified in the surviving text. The case-records open directly with a subject heading 一、崩漏 (“Section one: collapse-and-leak [uterine] bleeding”) and proceed through gynaecological, internal-medicine, and wēnbìng cases.
Prefaces
No transmitted preface in the 漢學文典 source.
Abstract
The text is an unattributed late-Qīng to late-imperial clinical manuscript characterised by careful use of decimal-precise dosing (e.g., 東洋參一錢五分, 酸棗仁二錢, 貢阿膠蒲黃炒一錢) and a distinctively light-and-cleansing prescribing style typical of the late-Qīng Sūzhōu / JiāngZhè warm-disease school. The opening cases treat uterine-bleeding (崩漏) with light-warming Dōngyángshēn (Japanese ginseng) plus collateral-sealing Ájiāo (donkey-hide gelatin) charred-into-medicine with Púhuáng and gentle Báisháo / Gāncǎo relaxation — a paradigmatic Yè-school approach.
The “Hall of Filial Distinction” 旌孝堂 studio name suggests a family clinic awarded a state plaque for filial conduct, a common late-Qīng honorific. Such anonymous studio-name casebooks were typical of late-Qīng family medical practices in which the case-records were compiled by junior clansmen or disciples for in-house use and only later circulated. Without further internal evidence the date can only be bracketed loosely to the late nineteenth or very early twentieth century.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Comparable anonymous late-Qīng casebooks: KR3ep044 Àiyuèlú yīàn, KR3ep045 Zhútíng yīàn, KR3ep046 Jiànhuìcǎotáng yīàn.
- Kanseki DB
- 旌孝堂醫案