Yīxué zhāicuì 醫學摘粹
Selected Essentials of Medical Learning by 慶恕 Qìng Shù (hào Yúngé 雲閣, fl. late Guāngxù 光緒, Manchu official-physician).
About the work
A five-juǎn late-Qīng clinical compendium by Qìng Shù — the medical magnum opus of a Manchu zōngshì 宗室 (imperial-clan) official who turned to medicine as an avocation across his career. The work was composed and revised over more than twenty years of clinical practice; its publication preface dates it to Guāngxù dīngyǒu 光緒丁酉 = 1897. The structure systematically integrates Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Shānghán / Jīnguì doctrine with the standard zázhèng (miscellaneous-pattern) repertoire of late-Imperial internal medicine: juǎn 1–2 give a biǎolǐ hánrè xūshí 表裡寒熱虛實 classification of cold-damage patterns (“補原書所未及，發二千年未發之秘”), juǎn 3 covers the standard miscellaneous diseases with explicit reference to the Jīnguì, and juǎn 4–5 provide the supporting yàoxìng (materia medica), sìzhěn (four-diagnostic-methods) and biànzhèng fǎ (pattern-discrimination methods). The work is a deliberately concise zhāicuì 摘粹 (selected-essence) production intended as a pedagogical reference rather than an encyclopaedic compendium.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt carries three substantial prefaces: (i) preface of 明保 Míngbǎo (a Manchu official and Qìng’s xiāngyúdì 鄉愚弟 — same-clan-region younger brother), dated Guāngxù dīngyǒu 光緒丁酉 = 1897, seventh month (mèngqiū), written from his official residence at Wǔliáng 五涼 (the modern Wǔwēi 武威, Gānsù), narrating his recovery from a serious oral inflammation (chǐlǔ 齒齦 ulceration with lip-swelling and fever) under Qìng’s two-dose gānlù yǐn 甘露飲 treatment, and the consequent printing of the work under Xiāo Xīsān 蕭錫三 sīmǎ 司馬’s patronage; (ii) preface of 史民範 Shǐ Mínfàn (zì Zhìmíng 秩銘, Gǔlèjiāo hòuxué 古樂郊後學), the Mínguó 民國 reprinter, dated Mínguó 2 / 1913 (guǐchǒu 癸丑, ninth month), narrating his pedagogical use of the work; (iii) preface of one further prefacer (truncated at guǐchǒu in _000.txt).
Abstract
Qìng Shù (hào Yúngé) was a Manchu zōngshì who served as tàishǒu 太守 (prefect) in successive postings — the 1897 preface places him as prefect of a Gān-sù-area county. His friend Míngbǎo’s preface explicitly notes Qìng’s Guāngxù jiǎwǔ 光緒甲午 = 1894 medical career in Běijīng, where Manchu and Hàn officials of bùcáo 部曹 (capital-bureau) rank consulted him daily. Neither Qìng Shù nor Míngbǎo nor Shǐ Mínfàn appears in CBDB; the work’s late-Qīng / Republican date-bracket must be inferred from internal prefatory evidence.
The work was reprinted in 1913 by Shǐ Mínfàn as a teaching text. The hxwd recension descends from a Japanese reprinting of the 1897 editio princeps.
Translations and research
No European-language translation located. For the late-Qīng integration of cold-damage doctrine into general internal-medicine practice — the doctrinal background to Qìng Shù’s work — see Marta Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine (Routledge, 2011); Bridie Andrews, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960 (UBC, 2014).