Scope and scholarly tradition
KR3eq 醫話類 (Yī-huà lèi, Medical Discourses) is the sub-division of the Masters → Medicine branch (KR3e 醫家類) that collects the doctrinal-essay, yīhuà 醫話 (“medical conversation”), yīlùn 醫論 (“medical discussion”), reading-notebook (dúshū jì 讀書記 / suíbǐ 隨筆), and miscellaneous-essay (zázhù 雜著 / bǐjì 筆記) literature of the Chinese medical tradition. Where the sibling division KR3ep 醫案類 KR3ep preserves the clinical-narrative casebook (yī’àn 醫案) — case histories of individual patients — KR3eq preserves the reflective-discursive counterpart: brief essays and aphoristic talks in which physicians argue doctrinal points, criticise contemporary practice, comment on the medical Classics, and record clinical maxims abstracted from particular cases. The two divisions are intimately related — many late-Qīng and Republican works contain both kinds of writing, and several authors (Xú Dàchūn, Wáng Shìxióng, Liǔ Bǎoyí, Zhōu Xuéhǎi) figure in both — but the genre distinction was already explicit by the late-Qīng, formalised most notably in Huáng Zūnxiàn’s 黃遵憲 1879 colophon to Asada Sōhaku’s Xiānzhé yīhuà KR3ep002.
Like KR3ep, every text in KR3eq is sourced from the modern Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī shànběn gǔjí cóngshū 海外回流中醫善本古籍叢書 (source: hxwd) edited by Zhèng Jīnshēng 鄭金生 — the repatriation project that returned to circulation rare shànběn 善本 preserved in Japanese and Korean libraries after their disappearance from Chinese collections. The chronological span runs from the early-Southern-Sòng foundational Yī shuō 醫說 of 張杲 Zhāng Gǎo (1224–1239) — historiographically the Urtext of the genre — through the late-Yuán / early-Míng programmatic essays of 王履 Wáng Lǚ and 朱震亨 Zhū Zhènhēng, the great Míng polymath compilations of 王肯堂 Wáng Kěntáng, the mid-Qīng critical synthesis of 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn, the Edo kohōha 古方派 essay literature of 吉益為則 Yoshimasu Tōdō and the Tamba 多紀 / Asada 淺田 successors, the late-Qīng Wēnbìng 溫病 clinical-essay tradition of 王士雄 Wáng Shìxióng (Mèngyīng 孟英), and the full Republican-era flowering of the yīhuà form into the 1930s and 1940s. The intellectual genealogy is sketched in Endymion Wilkinson’s Chinese History: A New Manual §41.3 (Medicine — Transmitted Works) — where Xú Dàchūn’s Yīxué yuánliú lùn KR3eq011 is selected as one of the fifteen English-entry-point Chinese medical works — and in TJ Hinrichs and Linda Barnes’s Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History (2013, chs. 5 and 7), which treat the yī’àn and yīhuà together as the late-imperial response to the consolidation of the scholar-physician identity and the expansion of the Jiāngnán book market.
Important texts and text clusters
The Sòng–Yuán–Míng foundational stratum. Five works define the early shape of the genre.
- Yī shuō 醫說 KR3eq024 — 張杲 Zhāng Gǎo (Jìmíng 季明, fl. c. 1149–c. 1227), Southern Sòng physician of Xīnān 新安; a ten-juǎn topical compendium of about a thousand classified medical anecdotes, case-records, doctrinal positions, and historical observations from earlier medical literature — the principal pre-Yuán Chinese-language reference for the Sòng medical world and the Urtext of the genre.
- Xù yī shuō 續醫說 KR3eq025 — 俞弁 Yú Biàn (Míng, c. 1530–1537); the mid-Míng continuation, extending Zhāng Gǎo’s anecdotal-historical method into the YuánMíng material.
- Gézhì yúlùn 格致餘論 KR3eq027 and Júfāng fāhuī 局方發揮 KR3eq002 — 朱震亨 Zhū Zhènhēng (Dānxī 丹溪, 1281–1358), the youngest of the JīnYuán Four Masters; the two foundational essay-collections of the zīyīn 滋陰 (nourishing-yin) school, the Júfāng fāhuī in particular a sustained polemical critique of the Sòng court-pharmacy Héjì júfāng 和劑局方 formulary.
- Yī-jīng sù-huí jí 醫經溯洄集 KR3eq022 — 王履 Wáng Lǚ (Āndào 安道, c. 1332–c. 1391), Zhū Zhènhēng’s late-life pupil; a one-juǎn collection of twenty-one critical-doctrinal essays that anticipated by some 250 years the late-Míng / Qīng Wēnbìng / Shānghán distinction, regarded by modern historiography as the bridging work between the JīnYuán Four Masters and the early-Míng programme of return to Zhāng Zhòngjǐng.
- Chǔshì yíshū 褚氏遺書 KR3eq029 — a one-juǎn essay compendium attributed to the Southern-Qí imperial physician 褚澄 Chǔ Chéng (d. 483), transmitted through a tenth-century tomb-excavation narrative; the work’s actual date of composition is debated, with modern scholarship divided between accepting a late-fifth-century kernel and treating the received recension as late-Táng or early-Sòng pseudepigrapha.
The Wáng Lǚ–Dài Sīgōng programmatic essay line. Tuīqiú shīyì 推求師意 KR3eq026 — 戴思恭 Dài Sīgōng (early-Míng, 1370–1500 bracket), Zhū Zhènhēng’s senior pupil; preserved by 汪機 Wāng Jī’s mid-Míng editorial recension, the work transmits Dài’s reconstruction of his master’s clinical reasoning. Read together with KR3eq022 this pair documents the late-Yuán / early-Míng moment of Dānxī-school self-reflection.
The Wáng Kěntáng late-Míng polymath cluster. 王肯堂 Wáng Kěntáng (Yǔtài 宇泰, hào Sǔnyǎn 損庵, 1549–1613), the Wàn-lì physician-statesman of Jīntán 金壇, produced four interlocking medical-essay works preserved in this division:
- Kěntáng yīlùn 肯堂醫論 KR3eq008 (c. 1602–1613) — Wáng’s principal yīlùn collection.
- Yī jìng 醫鏡 KR3eq043 (1597–1641) — the “Medical Mirror”, topical essays edited by Jiǎng Yí 蔣儀.
- Yī biàn 醫辨 KR3eq044 (1597–1692) — short doctrinal disputations.
- Yùgāngzhāi yīxué bǐzhǔ 鬱岡齋醫學筆麈 KR3eq045 — late-Míng bǐjì-format medical talks.
- Yīxué qióngyuán jí 醫學窮源集 KR3eq046 — a six-juǎn doctrinal compilation transmitted with Yīn Zháixīn 殷宅心’s mid-Qīng editorial recension. Wáng Kěntáng’s principal monumental work, the comprehensive clinical syndromology Zhèngzhì zhǔnshéng 證治準繩 (1602), is catalogued elsewhere; the present cluster preserves the discursive periphery of the same Wàn-lì scholarship.
Other late-Míng anchor works. Yīxué yuánlǐ 醫學原理 KR3eq042 — 汪機 Wāng Jī (1463–1539), the founder of the Xīnān 新安 school, in his theoretical-essay register (his casebook is KR3ep089). Zhìyí lù 質疑錄 KR3eq016 — 張介賓 Zhāng Jièbīn (Jǐngyuè 景岳, 1563–1640), a sequence of forty-eight short essays raising doctrinal doubts about both the JīnYuán Four Masters and his own contemporaries. Yīzhǐ xùyú 醫旨緒餘 KR3eq028 — 孫一奎 Sūn Yīkuí (Wényuán 文垣, 1522–1619), the Xīnān theorist of the mìngmén 命門 doctrine, in his programmatic-essay register. Xiānxǐngzhāi yīxué guǎng bǐjì 先醒齋醫學廣筆記 KR3eq034 — 繆希雍 Miào Xīyōng (1546–1627), late-Míng polymath physician. Shàngchí záshuō 上池雜說 KR3eq020 — 馮時可 Féng Shíkě, Wàn-lì jìnshì and amateur physician. Zhégōng mànlù 折肱漫錄 KR3eq067 — 黃承昊 Huáng Chénghào (Tiānqǐ-era), the celebrated “broken-arm-becomes-physician” autobiography. Péizǐ yányī 裴子言醫 KR3eq072 — 裴一中 Péi Yīzhōng, late-Míng physician whose work was later edited by 王士雄 in KR3eq040.
The Xú Dàchūn 徐大椿 polemical quartet. Mid-Qīng’s central figure of the kǎojù yīxué 考據醫學 (evidential-research-medicine) movement composed a tightly interlocking set of four polemical-doctrinal works in KR3eq:
- Yīguàn biān 醫貫砭 KR3eq048 (1741) — the earliest, a two-juǎn critique of 趙獻可 Zhào Xiànkě’s late-Míng warming-tonifying Yīguàn 醫貫 KR3er001, directly engaging the 呂留良 Lǚ Liúliáng faction’s high-Qīng curricular canonisation of Zhào.
- Shènjí chúyán 慎疾芻言 KR3eq085 (1767) — a one-juǎn lay-instructional treatise, written for bìngjiā (patient-families) rather than for physicians, cataloguing iatrogenic disasters by topical head.
- Yīxué yuánliú lùn 醫學源流論 KR3eq011 / KR3eq012 (1757) — the canonical, a two-juǎn collection of ninety-nine doctrinal essays; the foundational text of mid-Qīng medical philosophical reflection and one of the few Chinese medical works to have received a complete European-language scholarly translation (Paul U. Unschuld, Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine, 1990). This is also one of the fifteen Chinese medical works selected by Wilkinson §41.3 as English-language entry points.
- Yī biān 醫砭 KR3eq039 (1850) — Wáng Shìxióng’s mid-nineteenth-century redaction of Xú’s Shènjí chúyán, expanded with editorial comment.
The Wáng Shìxióng 王士雄 editorial empire. 王士雄 Wáng Shìxióng (Mèngyīng 孟英, hào Qiányuán 潛園, 1808–1868), the great late-Qīng Hángzhōu / Shànghǎi Wēnbìng master, was also the most active editor-anthologiser in the division. His own yīhuà works:
- Huíchūn lù 回春錄 KR3eq009 (1830–1843) — his early cases compiled by Zhōu Yīng 周鑅 (sic: 周鑅, identified in the persons frontmatter).
- Guīyàn lù 歸硯錄 KR3eq021 (1855–1862) — mature clinical-essay collection.
- Chéngfú yīyǐng 乘桴醫影 KR3eq098 (1861–1862) — his late, post-Tàipíng-rebellion reflections.
His editorial recensions of earlier works:
- Liǔzhōu yīhuà 柳洲醫話 KR3eq003 — Wáng’s edition of 魏之琇 Wèi Zhīxiù’s 醫話, supplementing the Xù míngyī lèi’àn KR3ep017.
- Yī biān 醫砭 KR3eq039 — his redaction of Xú Dàchūn’s Shènjí chúyán.
- Yányī xuǎnpíng 言醫選評 KR3eq040 — his selection and commentary on 裴一中 Péi Yīzhōng’s Yányī.
- Yuàntǐ yīhuà 願體醫話 KR3eq064 — Wáng’s edition of Shǐ Diǎn 史典’s work (mid-19th c.).
- Chóngqìngtáng suíbǐ 重慶堂隨筆 KR3eq089 — Wáng’s edition of his uncle 王學權 Wáng Xuéquán’s suíbǐ notes (printed mid-19th c.). Wáng’s combined output makes
KR3eqone of the principal documentary bases for the late-Qīng Wēnbìng clinical-literary tradition.
The Sūzhōu / Wú-region cluster. Wúyī huìjiǎng 吳醫彙講 KR3eq017 — 唐大烈 Táng Dàliè (Lìsān 立三, fl. late Qiánlóng), the editor of the eleven-juǎn anthology widely identified by modern scholarship as the first Chinese medical periodical; published from Sūzhōu’s Wènxīn cǎotáng 問心草堂 between 1792 and the early Jiā-qìng, the work solicits short essays from forty-some contemporary Sūzhōu physicians and arranges them by contributor rather than by topic, prefiguring the modern medical-journal form. Lǚshāntáng lèibiàn 侶山堂類辯 KR3eq018 — 張志聰 Zhāng Zhìcōng (1610–1683/1684), founder of the Qián-táng 錢塘 medical school, his early-Qīng disputation collection. Yīmén bànghē 醫門棒喝 KR3eq036 — 章楠 Zhāng Nán (Hǔshān 虎山, 1779–1857), the Dào-guāng-era Shàoxīng / Cíxī integration of Wēnbìng doctrine with classical-formulary practice for the working clinician.
The mature late-Qīng yīhuà form. A dense cluster of nineteenth-century yīhuà in the strict generic sense — short discursive entries modelled on the shīhuà 詩話 (poetry-talks) tradition — defines the genre’s classical maturity.
- Lěnglú yīhuà 冷廬醫話 KR3eq005 — 陸以湉 Lù Yǐtián (Dìngpǔ 定圃, 1801–1865) of Tóngxiāng (Zhèjiāng); the most-cited single yīhuà of the late Qīng, exceptional within the genre for its biographical-historical interest. The hxwd recension preserves 何廉臣 Hé Liánchén’s 1936 Bǔbiān annotations.
- Duìshān yīhuà 對山醫話 KR3eq013 and Máo Duìshān yīhuà 毛對山醫話 KR3eq057 — 毛祥麟 Máo Xiánglín (Duìshān 對山, mid-19th c.).
- Cúncúnzhāi yīhuà gǎo 存存齋醫話稿 KR3eq023 — 趙晴初 Zhào Qíngchū, with appended material by Shěn Zhòngguī 沈仲圭.
- Kèchén yīhuà 客塵醫話 KR3eq010 — 計楠 Jì Nán (c. 1800–1804).
- Àitáng yīhuà 馤塘醫話 KR3eq004 — 張魯峰 Zhāng Lǔfēng.
- Yǒuyúzhāi yīhuà 友漁齋醫話 KR3eq007 — 黃凱鈞 Huáng Kǎijūn (1810s–1820s), an eight-zhǒng (eight-book) collection.
- Yīlín suǒyǔ 醫林瑣語 KR3eq059 — 陸九芝 Lù Jiǔzhī (1860s–1880s).
- Yī cuì jīng yán 醫粹精言 KR3eq060 — 徐延祚 Xú Yánzuò (1880–1896).
- Yī xiá zhī yán 醫暇卮言 KR3eq088 — 程林 Chéng Lín (1672–1700), an early-Qīng anchor.
- Kèchuāng ǒután 客窗偶談 KR3eq062 — 沈明宗 Shěn Míngzōng (1670–1710).
- Yìtáng sànjì 怡堂散記 KR3eq063 — 許豫和 Xǔ Yùhé.
- Shìyǐnlú yīxué zázhù 市隱廬醫學雜著 KR3eq086 — 王德森 Wáng Désēn (1853).
- Yīxué kèér cè 醫學課兒策* KR3eq090 — 高鼎汾 Gāo Dǐngfén, the “examination questions for instructing my son in medicine”.
- Yīdé jí 一得集 KR3eq091 — 心禪僧 Xīnchán-sēng (1880s).
- Chǔnzǐ yī 蠢子醫 KR3eq093 — 龍繪堂 Lóng Huìtáng’s idiosyncratic doggerel-format yīhuà.
- Wáng Lètíng zhǐyào 王樂亭指要 KR3eq094, Shòushān bǐjì 壽山筆記 KR3eq095, Shòuyín yīzhuì 瘦吟醫贅 KR3eq096, Jīntái yīàn 金臺醫案 KR3eq076, Jìngān shuōyī 靖庵說醫 KR3eq077, Liǔ Bǎoyí yīlùn yīàn 柳寶詒醫論醫案 KR3eq033 (a mixed yīhuà-yī’àn compilation by 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí), Lángzhōng yīhuà 郎中醫話 KR3eq075 (anonymous wandering-physician).
The reading-notebook (讀書記 / 隨筆) register. A philological-evidential sub-form, framing medical reflection as commentary on canonical reading.
- Yīxué dúshū jì 醫學讀書記 KR3eq087 — 尤怡 Yóu Yí (Zàijīng 在涇, c. 1660s–1749), Sūzhōu master of Shānghán studies; the founding text of the form.
- Dúyī suíbǐ 讀醫隨筆 KR3eq083 — 周學海 Zhōu Xuéhǎi (Chéngzhī 澄之, 1856–1906) of Jiàndé (Wǎnnán), the great late-Qīng pulse-and-canon scholar; printed 1898 from the author’s Zhōushì yīxué cóngshū 周氏醫學叢書.
- Yīxué dúshū zhì 醫學讀書志 KR3eq097 — 曹禾 Cáo Hé (1840–1851); a 99-entry bibliographic-evaluative survey.
- Yánjīng yán 研經言 KR3eq014 — 莫枚士 Mò Méishì (Wénquán 文泉, 1862–1871), one of the most rigorous late-Qīng philological yīhuà, central to the kǎojù yīxué movement after Xú Dàchūn.
The Chǔnzhōng / Wēnbìng / yīyì register. Late-Qīng works integrating clinical Wēnbìng practice with theoretical reflection.
- Yīyuán 醫原 KR3eq015 — 石壽棠 Shí Shòutáng (1855–1891).
- Zhīyī bìbiàn 知醫必辨 KR3eq084 — 李冠仙 Lǐ Guānxiān (1848–1855).
- Yīyì tōngshuō 醫易通說* KR3eq047 — 唐宗海 Táng Zōnghǎi (1846–1897), the late-Qīng Sì-Chuān reformer’s “comprehensive discussion of medicine-and-the-Yìjīng”, the principal Qīng meditation on the cosmological structure of medical reasoning.
The “Doctoring the Doctor” (醫醫) polemical sub-genre. A small but distinctive family of works in which physicians satirise or critique their own profession.
- Yīyī bìng shū 醫醫病書 KR3eq041 — 吳瑭 Wú Táng (Jūtōng 鞠通, 1758–1836), the Wēnbìng canon-maker, in his polemical register; “a book to treat the physicians’ disease”.
- Yī yī yī 醫醫醫 KR3eq019 — Mèng Jīnshì 孟今氏 (1909), late-Qīng triple-titled polemic.
- Yīyī xiǎo cǎo 醫醫小草 KR3eq092 — 寶輝 Bǎo Huī (1895–1901), a Manchu-banner author’s polemic.
- Yīyī shí bìng 醫醫十病 KR3eq080 — anonymous, “ten illnesses of the physicians”.
- Yīxué chuánxīn lù 醫學傳心錄 KR3eq079 — attributed to 劉一仁 Liú Yīrén, transmitted by Qián Lètiān 錢樂天.
The Japanese Edo kohōha cluster. A substantial and distinctive group of late-Edo and early-Meiji medical-essay works, repatriated through hxwd, documenting the parallel evolution of Chinese-medical scholarship in Japan.
- Gǔshū yīyán 古書醫言 KR3eq037 — 吉益為則 Yoshimasu Tōdō (1702–1773), the central radical of the eighteenth-century kohōha movement; the foundational text of Japanese gǔfāng polemic against the LíngSù corpus.
- Yī duàn yǔ Chì Yī duàn 醫斷與斥醫斷 KR3eq054 — 鶴沖元逸 Tsuruoki Genitsu’s Idan with the rebuttal Sekiidan by 畑黃山 Hata Kōzan (1747–1768); a Edo-period polemical exchange around Yoshimasu Tōdō’s doctrine.
- Jiànshū lù 建殊錄 KR3eq056 — Yoshimasu Tōdō, ed. Iwa Kyōkei 岩恭敬 (1750–1763); the master’s case-essays.
- Shēngshēngtáng zhìyàn 生生堂治驗 KR3eq055 — 中神琴溪 Nakagami Kinkei, ed. Ono Son 小野遜.
- Yī shèng 醫賸 KR3eq052 — 多紀元簡 Tamba no Genkan (Tagaki Kanen 廓亭, 1755–1810) of the Tamba 多紀 medical-bibliographical dynasty; the most important Edo-period work of kǎozhèng medical philology.
- Yī yú 醫餘 KR3eq051 — 尾臺榕堂 Otai Yōdō (Otai Issōchō 逸士超, 1799–1870).
- Cóngguì ǒují 叢桂偶記 KR3eq050 — 原昌克 Hara Masakatsu (Nanyō 南陽, 1753–1820).
- Qīngnáng suǒtàn 青囊瑣探 KR3eq053 — 片倉元周 Katakura Kakuyū (1751–1822).
- Téngshì yītán 藤氏醫談 KR3eq001 — 近藤明 Kondō Akira (preface dated 1802), a moderate Edo response to the kohōha radicalism, doctrinally syncretist.
- Xiānzhé yīhuà jí 先哲醫話集 KR3eq038 — 長尾藻城 Nagao Sōjō (Meiji-Taishō), an early-twentieth-century Japanese consolidation of the whole Edo medical-aphorism inheritance, modelled on Asada Sōhaku’s earlier Xiānzhé yīhuà KR3ep002. Together with KR3ep001 and KR3ep002 in the sibling division, this cluster makes Kanripo one of the principal Sinitic-language documentary bases for Edo medical history.
The Republican-era yīhuà. The latest stratum of the division, running from roughly 1900 into the 1940s, documents the persistence and reform of the yīhuà genre under the pressures of the zhōngyī kèxuéhuà 中醫科學化 (scientifisation of Chinese medicine) debate.
- Cúncuì yīhuà 存粹醫話 KR3eq061, Jǐngjǐng yīhuà 景景醫話 KR3eq068, Jǐngjǐngshì yīgǎo zácún 景景室醫槁雜存 KR3eq069 — 陸錦燧 Lù Jǐnsuì (1910s–1925).
- Shìè yīhuà 士諤醫話 KR3eq081 — 陸士諤 Lù Shìè (Republican Shànghǎi).
- Zhǐyuán yīhuà 止園醫話 KR3eq082 — 羅文傑 Luó Wénjié.
- Cíjì yīhuà 慈濟醫話 KR3eq065, Lǎnyuán yīyǔ 懶園醫語 KR3eq066, Liúxiāngguǎn yīhuà 留香館醫話 KR3eq070 (Huá Zhèn 華振), Sùxuān yīyǔ 素軒醫語 KR3eq071 (Shào Cānzhī 邵餐芝), Juélú yīhuà lùcún 覺廬醫話錄存 KR3eq073 (Lú Juéyú 盧覺愚), Gǔsūn yīhuà 谷蓀醫話 KR3eq074 (Dài Gǔsūn 戴谷蓀), Huángshì yīhuà 黃氏醫話 KR3eq078 (Huáng Hànrú 黃漢如).
Curiosities. Liúqiú wèndá qíbìng lùn 琉球問答奇病論 KR3eq058 — an anonymous late-imperial Q&A on the “strange diseases of the Ryūkyū”, a rare external-region medical document. Xīchí jí 西池集 KR3eq031 — anonymous Míng–Qīng collection. Yījiā xīnfǎ 醫家心法 KR3eq035 — anonymous late-imperial “heart-methods” of medical practice.
Important persons
- 張杲 (Zhāng Gǎo, zì Jìmíng 季明, fl. c. 1149–c. 1227) — Southern Sòng physician of Xīnān 新安, author of the genre-founding Yī shuō KR3eq024. His family’s three-generation “sānshìyī” 三世醫 lineage frames his self-presentation.
- 王履 (Wáng Lǚ, zì Āndào 安道, c. 1332–c. 1391) — Yuán / early-Míng physician-painter of Kūnshān, 朱震亨’s late-life pupil; author of KR3eq022. Also one of the foremost YuánMíng landscape painters (the Huàshān tú 華山圖 album in the Palace Museum, Běijīng).
- 朱震亨 (Zhū Zhènhēng, Dānxī 丹溪, 1281–1358) — Yuán physician, the youngest of the JīnYuán Four Masters and founder of the zīyīn 滋陰 school; in this division as author of KR3eq027 and KR3eq002.
- 戴思恭 (Dài Sīgōng, Yuánlǐ 元禮, 1324–1405) — Zhū Zhènhēng’s principal pupil and Hóngwǔ court physician; his clinical reasoning transmitted in KR3eq026.
- 王肯堂 (Wáng Kěntáng, Yǔtài 宇泰, hào Sǔnyǎn 損庵, 1549–1613) — Wàn-lì-era physician-statesman of Jīntán (Jiāngsū); central producer of the late-Míng medical-essay literature (KR3eq008, KR3eq043–KR3eq046). His monumental Zhèngzhì zhǔnshéng is catalogued elsewhere in
KR3e. - 汪機 (Wāng Jī, Shíshān 石山, 1463–1539) — founder of the Xīnān 新安 medical school; author of KR3eq042 and editor of KR3eq026 and KR3eq022.
- 孫一奎 (Sūn Yīkuí, Wényuán 文垣, 1522–1619) — Xīnān theorist of the mìngmén 命門 doctrine; in this division as author of KR3eq028 (his casebook is KR3ep016).
- 張介賓 (Zhāng Jièbīn, Jǐngyuè 景岳, 1563–1640) — late-Míng theorist of warming-tonifying wēnbǔ doctrine; here in his sceptical-essay register (KR3eq016).
- 繆希雍 (Miào Xīyōng, Zhòngchún 仲淳, 1546–1627) — late-Míng polymath physician; author of KR3eq034.
- 徐大椿 (Xú Dàchūn, Língtāi 靈胎, hào Huíxī 洄溪, 1693–1771) — the foundational mid-Qīng kǎojù yīxué polemicist; author of KR3eq011 / KR3eq012, KR3eq048, KR3eq085, and (in 王士雄’s redaction) KR3eq039. The single most consequential author in the division.
- 尤怡 (Yóu Yí, Zàijīng 在涇, c. 1660s–1749) — Sūzhōu master of Shānghán exegesis; author of KR3eq087, the founding text of the medical reading-notebook form.
- 吳瑭 (Wú Táng, Jūtōng 鞠通, 1758–1836) — the canonical Qīng Wēnbìng systematiser; in this division in his polemical register (KR3eq041). His clinical casebook is KR3ep003.
- 唐大烈 (Táng Dàliè, Lìsān 立三, fl. late Qiánlóng) — Sūzhōu physician-editor; compiler of KR3eq017, conventionally identified as the first Chinese medical periodical.
- 陸以湉 (Lù Yǐtián, Dìngpǔ 定圃, 1801–1865) — Tóngxiāng polymath physician; author of KR3eq005 and the parallel non-medical Lěnglú záshí (1855).
- 王士雄 (Wáng Shìxióng, Mèngyīng 孟英, hào Qiányuán 潛園, 1808–1868) — late-Qīng Hángzhōu / Shànghǎi Wēnbìng master and editor; the most active anthologiser-redactor in the division, present as author of KR3eq009, KR3eq021, KR3eq098 and as editor of KR3eq003, KR3eq039, KR3eq040, KR3eq064, KR3eq089.
- 魏之琇 (Wèi Zhīxiù, Liǔzhōu 柳州, 1722–1772) — Hángzhōu master, author of KR3eq003 (in 王士雄’s editorial recension); also compiler of the great anthology KR3ep017 Xù míngyī lèi’àn.
- 周學海 (Zhōu Xuéhǎi, Chéngzhī 澄之, 1856–1906) — late-Qīng Wǎnnán Jiàndé polymath physician, author of KR3eq083 and the parent Zhōushì yīxué cóngshū 周氏醫學叢書.
- 莫枚士 (Mò Méishì, Wénquán 文泉, fl. 1860s–1870s) — late-Qīng kǎojù yīxué philologist; author of KR3eq014.
- 章楠 (Zhāng Nán, Hǔshān 虎山, 1779–1857) — Dào-guāng-era Shàoxīng / Cíxī integrator of Wēnbìng and classical-formulary doctrine; author of KR3eq036.
- 唐宗海 (Táng Zōnghǎi, Róngchuān 容川, 1846–1897) — late-Qīng Sì-Chuān physician and Zhōngxī huìtōng 中西匯通 reformer; author of KR3eq047.
- 柳寶詒 (Liǔ Bǎoyí, fl. 1880s–1900s) — late-Qīng Sūzhōu master and the principal anthologist of Sūzhōu-school medicine; here as author-compiler of KR3eq033. The complementary anthology KR3ep021 is in the sibling division.
- 何廉臣 (Hé Liánchén, 1861–1929) — Republican-era Shàoxīng reformer; editorial annotator of KR3eq005 and the central figure in the early-twentieth-century reform of Chinese medical-literary form.
- 陸錦燧 (Lù Jǐnsuì, hào Jǐngjǐng 景景, fl. 1910s–1920s) — Republican Jiāngsū physician; author of KR3eq061, KR3eq068, KR3eq069.
- 吉益為則 (Yoshimasu Tōdō 吉益東洞, 1702–1773) — central Edo kohōha radical; author of KR3eq037 and (via Iwa Kyōkei) KR3eq056.
- 多紀元簡 (Tamba no Genkan 多紀元簡, 1755–1810) — Edo kǎozhèng philologist of the Tamba medical-bibliographical dynasty; author of KR3eq052.
- 長尾藻城 (Nagao Sōjō, Meiji-Taishō) — early-twentieth-century Japanese physician-editor; compiler of KR3eq038.
Topics
The yīhuà as a literary form. The genre’s name and structure are explicitly borrowed from the late-Sòng shīhuà 詩話 (poetry-talks) tradition: short, occasional, aphoristic entries arranged loosely by topic or by chronological accumulation, framing the author’s individual voice against the canonical literature. The borrowing is methodologically programmatic — physicians are claiming for medicine the same literati-discursive register that the shīhuà claimed for poetics. The earliest sustained instance, Zhāng Gǎo’s Yī shuō KR3eq024 of the early thirteenth century, is roughly contemporary with the maturation of the shīhuà form, and its self-conscious accumulation method (“having read for a year I have collected so-many items”) confirms the analogy. Hinrichs & Barnes (2013, chs. 5 and 7) treat the yīhuà alongside the yī’àn as twin late-imperial articulations of the scholar-physician’s literary identity.
The polemical critique of contemporary practice. A dominant strand running from Zhū Zhènhēng’s KR3eq002 attack on the Sòng Júfāng through Xú Dàchūn’s KR3eq048 / KR3eq011 critique of the late-Míng warming-tonifying tradition to the late-Qīng / Republican “doctoring the doctor” sub-genre (KR3eq041, KR3eq019, KR3eq092, KR3eq080). The yīhuà is, alongside the prefatory essay, the principal Chinese-medical genre in which physicians explicitly criticise their contemporaries by name. The critique typically targets (a) routine warming-tonifying prescription divorced from clinical diagnosis, (b) excessive reliance on ginseng (rénshēn) and aconite (fùzǐ), (c) the abandonment of canonical Shānghán / Nèijīng learning in favour of doctrinal shortcuts, and (d) the social-cultural pathologies of medical practice (greedy yōngyī 庸醫 incompetents, deferential families).
The kǎojù yīxué 考據醫學 (evidential-research medicine) movement. The most consequential intellectual development represented in the division is the mid-to-late-Qīng turn toward philological-evidential reading of the medical canon, modelled on the contemporary kǎojù movement in Confucian classical scholarship. The foundational text is Xú Dàchūn’s Yīxué yuánliú lùn KR3eq011 of 1757, but the programme is anticipated by KR3eq022 (Wáng Lǚ) in the late fourteenth century and consolidated by KR3eq014 Mò Méishì in the late nineteenth and KR3eq083 Zhōu Xuéhǎi in the 1890s. The programme combines (a) systematic philological recovery of the HànTáng Jīngfāng tradition, (b) deflation of the JīnYuán Four Masters as having reduced classical complexity to one-sided doctrinal partisanship, and (c) clinical-empirical scepticism. The same critical-philological orientation appears, by independent convergence, in the Edo kohōha line (KR3eq037, KR3eq052, KR3eq054) — anticipating by some two centuries the early-twentieth-century zhōngyī kèxuéhuà debates.
Cold damage versus warm disease in essay form. Where in KR3ep the Shānghán / Wēnbìng polemic plays out in case practice, in KR3eq it plays out in doctrinal essay. KR3eq022 anticipated the distinction in the late fourteenth century; the mature Wēnbìng essay literature is represented by KR3eq036 (Zhāng Nán’s accessible synthesis), KR3eq015 (Shí Shòutáng), and the corpus of 王士雄 (KR3eq009, KR3eq021, KR3eq098); the counter-position — the fùgǔ 復古 return-to-Zhāng-Zhòngjǐng critique — is represented most powerfully by the Xú Dàchūn quartet.
Medicine and the Yìjīng. The cosmological-philosophical question of the relation between medical reasoning and the Yìjīng 易經 hexagram-system runs through the division and is explicitly thematised in KR3eq047 (Táng Zōnghǎi). The more general question of the cosmological foundation of medical practice is a recurring concern in KR3eq015 (Shí Shòutáng) and KR3eq036 (Zhāng Nán).
The Sūzhōu / Wúzhōng medical world. A geographical concentration of the long-eighteenth-century yīhuà in the lower Yangtze, with KR3eq017 (Táng Dàliè’s anthology) the principal external witness to a regional medical community of roughly forty physicians in the late Qiánlóng era. The same Sūzhōu world is documented in KR3eq087 (Yóu Yí), KR3eq018 (Zhāng Zhìcōng, the Qián-táng-school founder, though strictly speaking Hángzhōu rather than Sūzhōu), and the late-Qīng anthological-and-editorial output of 王士雄 and 柳寶詒.
The Edo kohōha and the East-Asian medical conversation. A distinctive feature of KR3eq is the substantial Edo / Meiji Japanese cluster (KR3eq001, KR3eq037, KR3eq038, KR3eq050–KR3eq056) preserving the parallel evolution of Chinese-medical scholarship in Japan. Yoshimasu Tōdō’s kohōha radicalism (rejecting the LíngSù corpus as pseudepigraphic, restricting the canon to Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Shānghán / Jīnguì, reducing aetiology to yīqì yīdú 一氣一毒 “one qì, one poison”) prefigures by two centuries the early-twentieth-century Chinese reform debates, and its texts were read with selective sympathy by 徐大椿, 王士雄, Yú Tīnghóng 余聽鴻, and Zhāng Xīchún 張錫純. The hxwd repatriation programme has made these texts available to Chinese readers in a way they had not been since the late-Qīng book-exchange networks.
The Republican-era yīhuà and the politics of Chinese medicine. The Republican-era stratum of the division (KR3eq038, KR3eq061, KR3eq065, KR3eq066, KR3eq068–KR3eq074, KR3eq078, KR3eq081, KR3eq082) preserves the yīhuà as a defensive and reformative literary mode under the pressure of the 1929 abolition-of-Chinese-medicine debate. The annotated reprints by Hé Liánchén (KR3eq005 Bǔbiān, KR3eq013) and the consolidation projects of the Shàoxīng Medical Society 紹興醫學會 use the yīhuà tradition to assemble a Chinese-medical-literary canon for the early-Republican reform programme. Hinrichs & Barnes (2013, ch. 8) treat this material as a key site of the Republican negotiation between traditional and modern medical identity.
The hxwd repatriation as a textual fact. As in the sibling division KR3ep, every text in KR3eq is preserved because of the Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī shànběn gǔjí cóngshū project. A substantial fraction — particularly the anonymous late-Qīng manuscripts (KR3eq031, KR3eq035, KR3eq058, KR3eq065, KR3eq066, KR3eq075, KR3eq076) and the Edo Japanese cluster — vanished from Chinese circulation in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and were recovered only through the Zhèng Jīnshēng programme of the 2000s. Citation conventions (manuscript date, recension witness, editorial intervention) must therefore be handled with the same care given to Dūnhuáng or Hēishuǐchéng recoveries.
Timeline
- 483–935 — Chǔshì yíshū 褚氏遺書 KR3eq029 — attributed 褚澄 Chǔ Chéng; the date bracket reflects the work’s contested transmission history from a putative Southern-Qí kernel to a late-Táng / early-Sòng received recension.
- 1224–1239 — Yī shuō 醫說 KR3eq024 — 張杲 Zhāng Gǎo; the genre-founding Southern Sòng compendium.
- 1340–1347 — Gézhì yúlùn 格致餘論 KR3eq027 — 朱震亨 Zhū Zhènhēng; the foundational JīnYuán zīyīn-school essay collection.
- 1340–1358 — Júfāng fāhuī 局方發揮 KR3eq002 — 朱震亨 Zhū Zhènhēng’s polemic against the Sòng court formulary.
- 1368–1378 — Yī-jīng sù-huí jí 醫經溯洄集 KR3eq022 — 王履 Wáng Lǚ; the bridging work between JīnYuán doctrinal synthesis and Míng classical-formulary revival.
- 1370–1500 — Tuīqiú shīyì 推求師意 KR3eq026 — 戴思恭 Dài Sīgōng; preserved in Wāng Jī’s mid-Míng editorial recension.
- 1500–1539 — Yīxué yuánlǐ 醫學原理 KR3eq042 — 汪機 Wāng Jī, founder of the Xīnān school.
- 1530–1537 — Xù yī shuō 續醫說 KR3eq025 — 俞弁 Yú Biàn; mid-Míng continuation of Zhāng Gǎo.
- 1570–1620 — Shàngchí záshuō 上池雜說 KR3eq020 — 馮時可 Féng Shíkě.
- 1573–1600 — Yīzhǐ xùyú 醫旨緒餘 KR3eq028 — 孫一奎 Sūn Yīkuí.
- 1597–1641 — Yī jìng 醫鏡 KR3eq043 — 王肯堂 Wáng Kěntáng.
- 1597–1692 — Yī biàn 醫辨 KR3eq044 — 王肯堂 Wáng Kěntáng.
- 1600–1800 — Xīchí jí 西池集 KR3eq031 — anonymous Míng / early-Qīng collection.
- 1600–1800 — Yījiā xīnfǎ 醫家心法 KR3eq035 — anonymous “heart-methods” essay.
- 1602–1613 — Kěntáng yīlùn 肯堂醫論 KR3eq008 — 王肯堂 Wáng Kěntáng’s principal essay collection.
- 1602–1926 — Yùgāngzhāi yīxué bǐzhǔ 鬱岡齋醫學筆麈 KR3eq045 — 王肯堂 (printed with Qín Bówèi 秦伯未’s Republican-era critical edition).
- 1605–1622 — Xiānxǐngzhāi yīxué guǎng bǐjì 先醒齋醫學廣筆記 KR3eq034 — 繆希雍 Miào Xīyōng.
- 1611–1808 — Yīxué qióngyuán jí 醫學窮源集 KR3eq046 — 王肯堂, with Yīn Zháixīn’s Qīng editorial recension.
- 1620–1640 — Zhìyí lù 質疑錄 KR3eq016 — 張介賓 Zhāng Jièbīn; forty-eight short doctrinal essays.
- 1620–1640 — Zhégōng mànlù 折肱漫錄 KR3eq067 — 黃承昊 Huáng Chénghào, the “broken-arm-becomes-physician” memoir.
- 1640–1660 — Péizǐ yányī 裴子言醫 KR3eq072 — 裴一中 Péi Yīzhōng.
- 1644–1722 — Xīnyī jí 心醫集 KR3eq032 — 祝登元 Zhù Dēngyuán.
- 1644–1750 — Yīxué chuánxīn lù 醫學傳心錄 KR3eq079 — attributed to 劉一仁 Liú Yīrén.
- 1657–1851 — Yányī xuǎnpíng 言醫選評 KR3eq040 — 裴一中 Péi Yīzhōng’s Yányī with 王士雄’s mid-nineteenth-century selection and commentary.
- 1660–1670 — Lǚshāntáng lèibiàn 侶山堂類辯 KR3eq018 — 張志聰 Zhāng Zhìcōng, founder of the Qián-táng 錢塘 medical school.
- 1670–1710 — Kèchuāng ǒután 客窗偶談 KR3eq062 — 沈明宗 Shěn Míngzōng.
- 1672–1700 — Yī xiá zhī yán 醫暇卮言 KR3eq088 — 程林 Chéng Lín; early-Qīng yīhuà.
- 1700–1850 — Liúqiú wèndá qíbìng lùn 琉球問答奇病論 KR3eq058 — anonymous Q&A on Ryūkyū diseases.
- 1729–1749 — Yīxué dúshū jì 醫學讀書記 KR3eq087 — 尤怡 Yóu Yí; the founding text of the medical reading-notebook (dúshū jì) form.
- 1741 — Yīguàn biān 醫貫砭 KR3eq048 — 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn; the earliest of his polemical quartet.
- 1747–1768 — Yī duàn yǔ Chì Yī duàn 醫斷與斥醫斷 KR3eq054 — 鶴沖元逸 Tsuruoki Genitsu and 畑黃山 Hata Kōzan; the Edo polemical exchange around Yoshimasu Tōdō.
- 1750–1763 — Jiànshū lù 建殊錄 KR3eq056 — 吉益為則 Yoshimasu Tōdō, ed. Iwa Kyōkei.
- 1750–1810 — Yìtáng sànjì 怡堂散記 KR3eq063 — 許豫和 Xǔ Yùhé.
- 1757 — Yīxué yuánliú lùn 醫學源流論 KR3eq011 / KR3eq012 — 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn; the canonical mid-Qīng essay collection.
- 1764–1773 — Gǔshū yīyán 古書醫言 KR3eq037 — 吉益為則 Yoshimasu Tōdō; the foundational kohōha doctrinal text.
- 1767 — Shènjí chúyán 慎疾芻言 KR3eq085 — 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn’s lay-instructional treatise.
- 1780–1800 — Cóngguì ǒují 叢桂偶記 KR3eq050 — 原昌克 Hara Masakatsu.
- 1790–1830 — Shēngshēngtáng zhìyàn 生生堂治驗 KR3eq055 — 中神琴溪 Nakagami Kinkei.
- 1792–1801 — Wúyī huìjiǎng 吳醫彙講 KR3eq017 — 唐大烈 Táng Dàliè; conventionally identified as the first Chinese medical periodical.
- 1795–1802 — Qīngnáng suǒtàn 青囊瑣探 KR3eq053 — 片倉元周 Katakura Kakuyū.
- 1795–1810 — Yī shèng 醫賸 KR3eq052 — 多紀元簡 Tamba no Genkan.
- 1798–1830 — Yīyī bìng shū 醫醫病書 KR3eq041 — 吳瑭 Wú Táng.
- 1800–1804 — Kèchén yīhuà 客塵醫話 KR3eq010 — 計楠 Jì Nán.
- 1800–1900 — Lángzhōng yīhuà 郎中醫話 KR3eq075 — anonymous wandering-physician.
- 1802 — Téngshì yītán 藤氏醫談 KR3eq001 — 近藤明 Kondō Akira; moderate Edo response to kohōha radicalism.
- 1808–1855 — Chóngqìngtáng suíbǐ 重慶堂隨筆 KR3eq089 — 王學權 Wáng Xuéquán, ed. 王士雄.
- 1810–1820 — Yǒuyúzhāi yīhuà 友漁齋醫話 KR3eq007 — 黃凱鈞 Huáng Kǎijūn.
- 1814 — Lǚshuāng jí 履霜集 KR3eq030 — 臧達德 Zāng Dádé.
- 1820–1853 — Yuàntǐ yīhuà 願體醫話 KR3eq064 — Shǐ Diǎn 史典, ed. 王士雄.
- 1820–1860 — Àitáng yīhuà 馤塘醫話 KR3eq004 — 張魯峰 Zhāng Lǔfēng.
- 1825–1850 — Yīmén bànghē 醫門棒喝 KR3eq036 — 章楠 Zhāng Nán.
- 1830–1843 — Huíchūn lù 回春錄 KR3eq009 — 王士雄 Wáng Shìxióng’s early cases.
- 1830–1839 — Shòuyín yīzhuì 瘦吟醫贅 KR3eq096 — Shòu-yín 瘦吟.
- 1830–1880 — Wáng Lètíng zhǐyào 王樂亭指要 KR3eq094 — 王樂亭 Wáng Lètíng.
- 1840–1851 — Yīxué dúshū zhì 醫學讀書志 KR3eq097 — 曹禾 Cáo Hé.
- 1840–1862 — Yī yú 醫餘 KR3eq051 — 尾臺榕堂 Otai Yōdō.
- 1840–1870 — Duìshān yīhuà 對山醫話 KR3eq013 / Máo Duìshān yīhuà 毛對山醫話 KR3eq057 — 毛祥麟 Máo Xiánglín (with 曹炳章’s Republican-era Bǔbiān supplement to the former).
- 1840–1900 — Xīxī shūwū yèhuà lù 西溪書屋夜話錄 KR3eq049 — 王泰林 Wáng Tàilín, ed. Zhōu Zhèn 周鎮.
- 1843–1860 — Yīxué kèér cè 醫學課兒策 KR3eq090 — 高鼎汾 Gāo Dǐngfén, with 王泰林’s marginalia.
- 1848–1855 — Zhīyī bìbiàn 知醫必辨 KR3eq084 — 李冠仙 Lǐ Guānxiān.
- 1850 — Yī biān 醫砭 KR3eq039 — 徐大椿 Shènjí chúyán redacted by 王士雄.
- 1853 — Shìyǐnlú yīxué zázhù 市隱廬醫學雜著 KR3eq086 — 王德森 Wáng Désēn.
- 1855–1862 — Guīyàn lù 歸硯錄 KR3eq021 — 王士雄 Wáng Shìxióng’s mature yīhuà.
- 1855–1891 — Yīyuán 醫原 KR3eq015 — 石壽棠 Shí Shòutáng.
- 1855–1897 — Lěnglú yīhuà 冷廬醫話 KR3eq005 — 陸以湉 Lù Yǐtián, with 何廉臣’s 1936 Bǔbiān; the most-cited single late-Qīng yīhuà.
- 1860–1880 — Yīlín suǒyǔ 醫林瑣語 KR3eq059 — 陸九芝 Lù Jiǔzhī.
- 1861–1862 — Chéngfú yīyǐng 乘桴醫影 KR3eq098 — 王士雄’s late, post-Tàipíng reflections.
- 1862–1871 — Yánjīng yán 研經言 KR3eq014 — 莫枚士 Mò Méishì.
- 1870–1907 — Liǔ Bǎoyí yīlùn yīàn 柳寶詒醫論醫案 KR3eq033 — 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí.
- 1770–1851 — Liǔzhōu yīhuà 柳洲醫話 KR3eq003 — 魏之琇 Wèi Zhīxiù, ed. 王士雄.
- 1880–1890 — Yīdé jí 一得集 KR3eq091 — 心禪僧 Xīnchán-sēng.
- 1880–1896 — Yī cuì jīng yán 醫粹精言 KR3eq060 — 徐延祚 Xú Yánzuò.
- 1880–1897 — Yīyì tōngshuō 醫易通說 KR3eq047 — 唐宗海 Táng Zōnghǎi.
- 1880–1910 — Chǔnzǐ yī 蠢子醫 KR3eq093 — 龍繪堂 Lóng Huìtáng.
- 1880–1936 — Cúncúnzhāi yīhuà gǎo 存存齋醫話稿 KR3eq023 — 趙晴初 Zhào Qíngchū, with Shěn Zhòngguī’s appendix.
- 1881 — Shòushān bǐjì 壽山筆記 KR3eq095 — 楊淵 Yáng Yuān.
- 1890–1910 — Jīntái yīàn 金臺醫案 KR3eq076 — anonymous.
- 1890–1910 — Jìngān shuōyī 靖庵說醫 KR3eq077 — 周聲溢 Zhōu Shēngyì.
- 1891–1898 — Dúyī suíbǐ 讀醫隨筆 KR3eq083 — 周學海 Zhōu Xuéhǎi; printed 1898 in his Zhōushì yīxué cóngshū.
- 1895–1901 — Yīyī xiǎo cǎo 醫醫小草 KR3eq092 — 寶輝 Bǎo Huī.
- 1900–1936 — Xiānzhé yīhuà jí 先哲醫話集 KR3eq038 — 長尾藻城 Nagao Sōjō’s early-twentieth-century consolidation of Edo medical aphorism.
- 1909 — Yī yī yī 醫醫醫 KR3eq019 — Mèng Jīnshì 孟今氏; late-Qīng triple-titled polemic.
- 1910–1925 — Cúncuì yīhuà 存粹醫話 KR3eq061 — 陸錦燧 Lù Jǐnsuì.
- 1913–1915 — Jǐngjǐng yīhuà 景景醫話 KR3eq068 — 陸錦燧 Lù Jǐnsuì.
- 1915–1925 — Jǐngjǐngshì yīgǎo zácún 景景室醫槁雜存 KR3eq069 — 陸錦燧 Lù Jǐnsuì.
- 1920–1921 — Lǎnyuán yīyǔ 懶園醫語 KR3eq066 — anonymous Republican.
- 1920–1939 — Gǔsūn yīhuà 谷蓀醫話 KR3eq074 — 戴谷蓀 Dài Gǔsūn.
- 1923–1935 — Cíjì yīhuà 慈濟醫話 KR3eq065 — anonymous Republican.
- 1925–1935 — Liúxiāngguǎn yīhuà 留香館醫話 KR3eq070 — 華振 Huá Zhèn.
- 1925–1935 — Sùxuān yīyǔ 素軒醫語 KR3eq071 — 邵餐芝 Shào Cānzhī.
- 1925–1937 — Huángshì yīhuà 黃氏醫話 KR3eq078 — 黃漢如 Huáng Hànrú.
- 1925–1945 — Juélú yīhuà lùcún 覺廬醫話錄存 KR3eq073 — 盧覺愚 Lú Juéyú.
- 1929–1945 — Zhǐyuán yīhuà 止園醫話 KR3eq082 — 羅文傑 Luó Wénjié.
- 1930–1944 — Shìè yīhuà 士諤醫話 KR3eq081 — 陸士諤 Lù Shìè; the latest dated work in the division.