Shěn Júrén yīàn 沈菊人醫案
Medical Case Records of Shěn Júrén by 沈菊人 Shěn Júrén (mid-19th c.).
About the work
A two-juǎn casebook of the mid-Qīng physician Shěn Júrén, compiled by his two senior disciples 李莜云 Lǐ Xiàoyún (máocái 茂才, district graduate) and 呂伯純 Lǚ Bǎichún (shàngshè 上舍, imperial-academy student). The compilation was preface’d by Shěn’s son-in-law, who explicitly identifies the editorial role of the two named disciples in selecting and arranging the cases.
Prefaces
The 漢學文典 _000.txt carries a preface by Shěn’s son-in-law (wàijiù relation reversed: the preface refers to Shěn as 外舅, indicating the preface-writer is Shěn’s son-in-law). The preface argues, in classical Zhīzhī / Chǔzhī parallelism, that “to know is to know clearly” and “to deal is to deal aptly” — the dual virtue required of both statesman and physician. It cites Shěn as a Confucian polymath (“工詩善畫，而尤肆力於岐黃”) who excelled in poetry, painting, and medicine, with mastery of jīngluò, pulse-theory, yàoxìng, and bìngqíng. Shěn admonished his disciples that “Although medicine is a ‘minor Way,’ it is in truth a matter on which the lives of the multitudes depend; you must investigate clearly and reflect carefully, and your thought must seek confirmed certainty before stopping.”
Abstract
Shěn Júrén 沈菊人’s biographical record is meagre beyond the prefatorial information. The text places him as a mid-nineteenth-century Jiāngnán scholar-physician of independent means and Confucian-literati identity. The clinical signature (extensive use of xīyángshēn 西洋參, light xuánfùhuā descents, dàizhěshí / jiégěng / fúlíngshén combinations) places the work in the late-Yè-school Sūzhōu / Chángzhōu medical milieu.
The composition window 1820–1880 reflects a likely 19th-century clinical career; the disciple-compilation was probably finalised in the Tóngzhì or Guāngxù period.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Comparable mid-Qīng Sūzhōu / Jiāngnán casebooks.
- Kanseki DB
- 沈菊人醫案