柳寶詒醫論醫案

Liǔ Bǎoyí yīlùn yīàn 柳寶詒醫論醫案

Liǔ Bǎoyí’s Medical Discussions and Case Records by 柳寶詒 Liǔ Bǎoyí (zì Gǔsūn 谷孫, 1842–1901), late-Qīng physician of Jiāngyīn 江陰 (Jiāngsū), a key figure of the Mènghé 孟河 medical school of the late nineteenth century.

About the work

A two-juǎn compilation of clinical-theoretical discussions (yīlùn 醫論) and case-records (yīàn 醫案) by Liǔ Bǎoyí, gathered posthumously from his clinical notes and published in the early-Republican era as part of the broader effort to preserve the Mèng-hé-school clinical-doctrinal corpus. The catalog meta supplies no personal author tag; the work’s title and self-identification establish Liǔ as the author. The compilation falls in the standard Mènghé-school clinical-doctrinal genre: case-records prefaced by aetiological-doctrinal reasoning, with explicit cross-reference to the 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì 葉天士 / 吳瑭 Wú Tāng Wēnbìng canon and the 張仲景 Zhāng Zhòngjǐng Shānghán classical-formulary tradition. Liǔ’s distinctive doctrinal contribution is the integration of the Wēnbìng school’s clinical methodology with a rigorous jīngfāng engagement — an integration that defined the Mènghé school’s late-Qīng synthesis and shaped Republican-era Chinese internal medicine.

Prefaces

The jicheng.tw text carries the standard front-matter prefaces of the work; the present digital exemplar’s paratextual content varies by edition. Liǔ Bǎoyí’s earlier preface to KR3eq006 Yèxuǎn yīhéng (1894) is the principal datable self-statement of his doctrinal position.

Abstract

Liǔ Bǎoyí 柳寶詒 (Gǔsūn, 1842–1901), Jiāng-yīn-region physician active in the late Qīng, is the founding figure of the late-Qīng / Republican Mènghé branch of the Wēnbìng school. The catalog meta lists him conventionally as Qīng; the composition window 1870–1907 reflects (a) his maturing clinical career from the early 1870s and (b) the posthumous compilation date of the case-record collection. His other principal works are the Wēnrè féngyuán 溫熱逢源 — an important late-Qīng systematic treatise on warm-disease — and his contributions to the Shàoxīng Medical Society publications under Hé Liánchén 何廉臣. See person note 柳寶詒 for biographical detail.

Doctrinal significance: the work is one of the principal documents of the Mènghé school’s late-Qīng synthesis between Wēnbìng aetiological-doctrinal reasoning and classical-formulary jīngfāng clinical method. The Mènghé school — centered on Chángzhōu 常州 / Jiāngyīn 江陰 and including 費伯雄 Fèi Bóxióng (1800–1879), 馬培之 Mǎ Péizhī (1820–1903), and the early-Republican 丁甘仁 Dīng Gānrén (1865–1926) — was the most influential single late-Qīng medical lineage and the principal source of the Republican-era Chinese internal-medicine tradition.

Translations and research

No substantial European-language translation of the Liǔ Bǎoyí yīlùn yīàn located. Liǔ’s broader corpus and the Mènghé school’s development are treated extensively in Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626–2006 (Eastland Press, 2007), ch. 4 on the Mènghé school.

Links

• Liǔ Bǎoyí (zh)
• Mènghé school — see Scheid 2007.
• Kanseki DB
• 柳寶詒醫論醫案 (jicheng.tw)