Wáng Jiǔfēng yīàn (yī) 王九峰醫案（一）
Medical Case Records of Wáng Jiǔfēng (Part One) by 王九峰 Wáng Jiǔfēng (Wáng Zhīzhèng 王之政, c. 1753–1831), of Dāntú 丹徒; compiled by 嚴敦益 Yán Dūnyì (Shòufǔ 受甫, hào Yúyǐn 漁隱), 1923.
About the work
A single-juǎn casebook of the late-Qiánlóng / Jiāqìng / Dàoguāng-period Zhènjiāng physician Wáng Jiǔfēng, edited by Yán Dūnyì of Zhūfāng 朱方 in 1923 from multiple manuscript copies. Most of Wáng’s case-records were destroyed in the Tàipíng wars (the “HóngYáng” disturbances, 洪楊之後); Yán’s edition is therefore a recovery from scattered sources. Bùyī (補遺) supplements were planned for later volumes.
Prefaces
The hxwd _001.txt opens with Yán Dūnyì’s preface dated Mínguó shíèr nián bā yuè wàngrì (15 August 1923), signed Zhūfāng Yán Dūnyì Shòufǔ shì hào Yúyǐn zhì yú dūmén 朱方嚴敦益受甫氏號漁隱識于都門 (i.e., at the capital, Běijīng). The preface describes a multi-source editorial recovery: Yán acquired one manuscript from 徐蔭庭 Xú Yìntíng of the Hánjiāng 邗江 region, then another (preserved within 蔣寶素醫略 Jiǎng Bǎosù yīlüè, by Wáng’s senior disciple 蔣寶素 Jiǎng Bǎosù) from his Běijīng housemate 王紹棠 Wáng Shàotáng of Dāntú. Yán collated the two manuscripts, classified the cases by syndrome, corrected obvious copyist-errors, and left unresolvable readings cún yí (存疑, “preserved as doubt”). The preface notably names Xú Língtāi 徐靈胎 (徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn, 1693–1771) as Wáng Jiǔfēng’s teacher — an important lineage claim.
Abstract
Wáng Jiǔfēng 王九峰 (also called Wáng Zhīzhèng 王之政, c. 1753–1831), native of Dāntú 丹徒 (now Zhènjiāng, Jiāngsū). He was the leading Zhènjiāng physician of the late-Qiánlóng to Dàoguāng period and the most famous medical disciple of 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn (Xú Língtāi, 1693–1771). After Xú’s death he carried on the Wú-jiāng-school Shānghán classicism in the Zhènjiāng / Dāntú area and was widely regarded as the “first physician of the south of the Yangtze.” His clinical reputation drew patients across the lower Yangtze.
This compilation and its companion volume KR3ep077 Wáng Jiǔfēng yīàn (èr) together constitute the principal documentary record of his practice. The composition window 1790–1923 brackets the original clinical period (c. 1790–1830) through the Republican-period editorial assembly (1923).
Translations and research
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Links
- Companion volume: KR3ep077 Wáng Jiǔfēng yīàn (èr).
- Teacher’s casebook: KR3ep087 Huíxī yīàn by Xú Dàchūn.
- Contemporary Dāntú casebook: KR3ep060 Lǐ Guànxiān yīàn.
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- 王九峰醫案（一）