Línzhèng jīngyìng lù 臨症經應錄
Record of Effective Responses from Clinical Practice by an unnamed Huáiān 淮安 physician signing as “Huáishān rúshì Liúshì JīnFāng” 淮山儒士劉氏金方識 (fl. mid-19th c.).
About the work
A four-juǎn casebook with a self-preface dated Xiánfēng jǐwèi (1859) by an author who signs the preface “Huáishān rúshì Liúshì JīnFāng” 淮山儒士劉氏金方識 and self-refers throughout as “(金) 不敏” — a third-generation hereditary physician of the Huáiān 淮安 region (Jiāngsū). The work is organised by syndrome and includes a substantial fánlì (凡例 — editorial principles) section that documents the author’s methodological position with unusual clarity for a private casebook.
Prefaces
The 漢學文典 _000.txt carries a zìxù 自敘 dated Xiánfēng jǐwèi nián mèngchūn (1859, second lunar month) by the author, plus a long fánlì setting out ten editorial principles. The author cites 陸贄 Lù Xuāngōng 陸宣公 of the Táng and 范仲淹 Fàn Wénzhèng 范文正公 (Fàn Zhòngyān) of the Sòng on the dignity of the medical art (“if I cannot be a good prime minister, I will be a good physician”), describes his family’s three-generation medical practice and his disciples’ compilation of cases over a decade of clinical work, and stipulates that omissions in his cases (missing prescription, missing patient name, missing residence) are honestly marked as such rather than fabricated.
Abstract
Notable methodological points from the fánlì:
- The author follows the classical medical canon (Nèijīng, Língshū, Sùwèn, Nánjīng) plus 張仲景 Zhāng Zhòngjǐng on Shānghán / wēnbìng, 劉完素 Liú Héjiān on shīrè / wēnyì, and 吳鞠通 Wú Jūtōng’s Wēnbìng tiáobiàn — explicitly synthesising the cold-damage and warm-disease schools.
- The work places the Spring-Warmth (春溫) section first among the six-qì (六氣) headings, on the cosmological reasoning that yín (寅) is spring, the head of the four seasons, and the time of myriad-things’ awakening.
- The author refuses to “carve in stone” specific dosages, insisting on case-by-case clinical adjustment.
- Women’s and pediatric / pox-rash sections are kept separate from internal-medicine cases for reasons of physiological specificity.
- The author identifies as a Confucian rúshì practising medicine in the family tradition, not a literatus playing physician.
The composition window 1830–1859 reflects the author’s clinical work over the several decades preceding the 1859 preface. The signature “Liúshì JīnFāng” is most plausibly read as the author’s surname Jīn 金 with the biémíng Fāng 方 and a Liú-lineage maternal connection. The text is occasionally identified in later catalogue traditions with 金子久 Jīn Zǐjiǔ (1870–1921) of Tóngxiāng 桐鄉 — but that identification would be anachronistic given the 1859 preface. The 漢學文典 source’s editorial attribution must therefore be treated with caution; the present catalog follows the conventional listing but flags the discrepancy.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Comparable mid-Qīng “synthesis-school” casebooks.
- Kanseki DB
- 臨症經應錄