Wángshì yīàn yìzhù 王氏醫案繹註
Annotated Elucidation of Wáng’s Medical Case Records annotated by 任錫庚 Rèn Xīgēng (late Qīng).
About the work
An eleven-juǎn annotated edition of the Wángshì yīàn trilogy (KR3ep083, KR3ep084, KR3ep085) by the late-Qīng physician Rèn Xīgēng 任錫庚, with extensive yìzhù (繹註 — elucidating annotation) attached to each case. The work is structured as a study-edition combining the original Wáng cases with Rèn’s pedagogical commentary.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt opens with an Appended Material (附錄) section reproducing a dīngyǒu 丁酉 (1837) case of huòluàn zhuǎnjīn (霍亂轉筋 — cholera with leg-cramps) from Hángzhōu, in which Wáng Mèngyīng deployed his characteristic Cánshǐ tāng 蠶矢湯 (silkworm-excrement decoction) prescription. The case is the locus classicus for Wáng’s signature huòluàn protocol and a standard teaching specimen. Rèn’s yìzhù explains the yīnyáng shuǐ (dual-water) preparation method and the pathophysiology behind the silkworm-excrement-plus-mung-bean-sprouts plus mùguā prescription.
Abstract
Rèn Xīgēng 任錫庚 was a late-Qīng physician and Wáng-school commentator of obscure biographical record (CBDB does not record him). His Yìzhù circulated widely as a study-edition of Wáng Mèngyīng’s cases in the late-Qīng and early-Republican Chinese-medical schools, where the dense classical-medical content of Wáng’s original cases required pedagogical mediation. The commentary annotates: (1) the canonical-medical doctrine behind each prescription, (2) Wáng’s specific clinical reasoning, (3) drug-substitution rules for cases in which the original prescription is impractical, and (4) the broader wēnbìng school context.
The composition window 1880–1910 brackets the late-Qīng to early-Republican period in which the work circulated; the precise date of composition is not established.
Translations and research
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