Yīxué jǔyào 醫學舉要
Cardinal Essentials of Medical Learning by 徐鏞 Xú Yōng (mid-Qīng physician, zì and lifedates unrecovered).
About the work
A six-juǎn didactic compendium of clinical medicine organised around the Shānghán lùn 傷寒論 liùjīng 六經 (six-channel) framework, but explicitly broadened — following the mid-Qīng Shānghán-revisionists Chéng Jiāoqiàn 程郊倩 and Kē Yùnbó 柯韻伯 — to cover all disease, not merely cold-damage. The opening chapter (Liùjīng hélùn 六經合論) lays out the editorial programme: Xú argues that Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s own preface to the Shānghán zábìng lùn 傷寒雜病論 makes clear that cold-damage and miscellaneous-disease (傷寒, 雜病) were never separated by the author into two books, and that the six-channel framework is therefore a comprehensive nosology, not a special pathology of Shānghán. Subsequent juǎn apply this framework to the standard internal-medicine diagnostic and therapeutic categories, with extensive citation of 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì’s Línzhèng zhǐnán yīàn 臨證指南醫案 (1764) and 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn’s Yīxué yuánliú lùn (1757). The work belongs to the late-Qīng Shānghán-revisionist genre — the same intellectual current that produced KR3er108 Lèizhèng pǔjì běnshìfāng xùjí and the broader Kē Yùnbó tradition.
Abstract
The hxwd _000.txt is empty; the author preface and any colophon are not preserved in the transmitted text. CBDB returns multiple homonymous 徐鏞 entries, of which CBDB 61782 (Qīng, c_index_year 1779) is the most plausible candidate for the author of this medical work; the work itself, on the basis of internal citation of Yè Tiānshì and Xú Dàchūn and the developed mid-late Qīng Shānghán-revisionist programme it reproduces, must be later than the 1820s and probably belongs to the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The composition window is therefore tentatively bracketed at 1830–1865. The work is preserved through the Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī gǔjí cóngshū repatriation series in Japanese collections and was rare even in late-Qīng China.
Translations and research
No substantial European-language secondary literature located. The Qīng Shāng-hán commentarial tradition into which this work falls is treated in Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626–2006 (Eastland, 2007), and in Asaf Goldschmidt, The Evolution of Chinese Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960–1200 (Routledge, 2009) for the Sòng-era foundations.