Bānlùn cuì yīng 斑論萃英
Gathered Quintessence of Discussions on Spotted-Rash Disease by 王好古 Wáng Hǎogǔ (zì Jìnzhī 進之, hào Hǎicáng 海藏, c. 1200 – c. 1308).
About the work
A short single-juǎn monograph on bān 斑 (spotted rash / petechiae / macular eruption) — the class of febrile-disease cutaneous eruptions that the SòngJīnYuán medical tradition treated as a distinct nosological category, requiring its own diagnostic and therapeutic framework. Wáng’s treatment in this work gathers (“cuì 萃 — pluck”) the most-cited SòngJīnYuán discussions of bān into a single synthetic statement, with characteristic discussion of (1) the differential diagnosis of bān from yǐn 瘾疹 (urticaria / hives) and from zhěn 疹 (measle-like rash), (2) the pulse-pattern characteristic of true bān, and (3) the appropriate cooling and detoxifying formulae (notably the huàbān tāng 化斑湯 family). The work is short but doctrinally significant as one of the earliest dedicated bān-monographs in the Chinese medical tradition and as a precursor of the late-Míng / Qīng wēnbìng 溫病 (warm-disease) tradition’s developed nosology of febrile-cutaneous eruptions.
Abstract
The hxwd _000.txt is empty (header only); the body text in _001.txt opens directly. The work belongs to Wáng Hǎogǔ’s mature period, conventionally dated together with the other Wáng works (KR3er030, KR3er033) to the late Yuán Zhìyuán / Dàdé / Zhìdà eras (1291–1308). The work circulated principally through the Míng Sōngyáng yīshū 松陽醫書 and other Wáng-corpus collections, and the late-Qīng / Republican-era Hǎicáng yīshū 海藏醫書 collected-works edition. The work is preserved in the Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī gǔjí cóngshū through Japanese collections.
Translations and research
No substantial European-language translation of the Bān-lùn cuì-yīng located. The bān-nosology question and its place in the late-Yuán medical synthesis is discussed in Marta Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine (Routledge, 2011), and in Yu Yong 余瀛鰲, Wáng Hǎo-gǔ yī-xué quán-shū 王好古醫學全書 (Zhōng-guó zhōng-yī-yào, 2005).