Shènwǔtáng zhìyàn lù 慎五堂治驗錄
Treatment-Verification Records of the Hall of the Five Cautions by an anonymous physician hailed as 蘭陔先生 Lángāi xiānshēng (fl. 1862–1879+), as transcribed by his eldest son 雅樂 Yǎlè.
About the work
A fifteen-juǎn late-Qīng casebook — by far the largest in the KR3ep series — preserving the cases of a self-effacing late-Qīng physician known to his son and disciples by the literary epithet Lángāi xiānshēng 蘭陔仁長先生. The compilation principles are unusually explicit: cases were transcribed by the author’s sons during their own clinical activity, with all year-month-locality-prescription-dosage detail preserved verbatim “to serve as future verification material.”
Prefaces
The _000.txt opens with two pieces: (1) an editorial preface by the author’s eldest son, signed Chángnán Yǎlè jǐnshí 長男雅樂謹識, describing how his father had directed the sons to systematically transcribe all clinical cases beginning in Tóngzhì 1 (1862) and continuing through Guāngxù 5 (1879); the project was to be open-ended, accumulating “day by day, month by month.” (2) A poem-dedication (題辭) addressed Lángāi rénzhǎng xiānshēng 蘭陔仁長先生 dated jiǎshēn qiū jiǔ yuè shuò (= Guāngxù 10 = autumn 1884), signed shàotáng dì Jìzēng Huáng 少塘弟季增黃 — confirming the author’s biéhào as Lángāi and dating the final editorial round to c. 1884.
Abstract
The “Five Cautions” (慎五) of the studio-name refer to a classical-medical injunction (五慎 — caution in xíng posture, qì breath, yán speech, shí food, sè sexual function) and bespeak a Confucian-classical clinical-ethics orientation. The work is methodologically distinctive for preserving full case-detail with year, month, location, and exact gram-weights — making it an unusually rich source for late-Qīng prescribing-statistics and clinical-epidemiological studies. The fifteen juǎn are not organised by syndrome but accumulate chronologically.
The composition window 1862–1885 reflects the documented clinical period plus the 1884 verse dedication. The surname of the author has not been securely identified from the surviving text; later scholarship has tentatively associated Lángāi xiānshēng with the Qián 錢 family medical lineage of Wújiāng 吳江 (Jiāngsū), but this remains uncertain.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Comparable late-Qīng family-clinic casebooks.
- Kanseki DB
- 慎五堂治驗錄