Luóshì huìyuē yī jìng 羅氏會約醫鏡
Master Luó’s Mirror of Medicine for Joint Conference by 羅國綱 Luó Guógāng (zì Zhènzhān 振占, 1739–after 1789, Shàngxiāng 上湘 / Xiāngxiāng 湘鄉, Húnán).
About the work
A twenty-juǎn mid-Qiánlóng-late-Qiánlóng systematic medical compendium by the Hunan-native scholar-physician Luó Guógāng. The title huìyuē 會約 (“for joint conference” / “agreed upon by the assembled”) indicates the work’s ambition to reach a clinical-pedagogical consensus by surveying the conflicting prescriptions of the existing literature and consolidating them into a single agreed-upon formulary. The work treats internal medicine, women’s medicine, paediatrics, shānghán, wēnbìng, and surgery, with each disease-category given a doctrinal exposition, the standard prescriptions from earlier authorities (with explicit attribution), and Luó’s own ànyǔ 案語 head-notes consolidating the clinical pattern. Luó’s doctrinal positioning is that of a late-Qiánlóng synthesist, drawing on Zhāng Jǐngyuè’s Wēnbǔ tradition while engaging with the rival positions of Yè Tiānshì and Xú Dàchūn.
Prefaces
The hxwd _000.txt opens with Luó Guógāng’s zìxù 自序, dated Qiánlóng 54 / 1789 (己酉歲孟冬月), signed “chìfēng chéngdé láng Hànlín yuàn jiǎntǎo jiā sān jí Chǔnán Shàngxiāng Luó Guógāng Zhènzhān shì” 敕封承德郎翰林院檢討加三級楚南上湘羅國綱振占氏自序 — disclosing Luó’s honorific official rank of chéngdé láng 承德郎 (a cóngwǔpǐn civilian rank) and his ornamental titulature as Hànlín yuàn jiǎntǎo (academy compiler) with three-grade promotion, indicating a non-substantive imperial titulature. The fánlì 凡例 follows. Luó’s preface refers to Zhāng Jǐngyuè (the Jǐngyuè quánshū of KR3er073) by his zì and offers a critical-defensive account of his own clinical positioning relative to Zhāng.
Abstract
Luó Guógāng (CBDB has no record under this name; we follow the modern reference works’ 1739–after 1789 bracket) was a Húnán scholar of Shàngxiāng 上湘 (Xiāngxiāng 湘鄉) origin. He held a chìfēng honorific Hànlín titulature — chìfēng indicating an imperial honour granted through one’s descendants’ achievement rather than personal examination — and was an active clinical physician. The work was completed and self-published in 1789. The hxwd recension descends from a Japanese reprinting.
Translations and research
No European-language secondary literature located. For the late-Qiánlóng synthesis of Wēn-bǔ and Wēn-bìng doctrines see Marta Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics (Routledge, 2011); Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition (Eastland, 2007).
Links
- Person notes 羅國綱 (author).