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 Jiāng-Zhè 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 / Jiāng-Zhè 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
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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