Yīshī mìjí 醫師秘笈
The Physician’s Secret Manuscript Box by 李言恭 Lǐ Yángōng (Qīng-era physician, dates uncertain — not to be conflated with the late-Míng Marquis of Línhuái 臨淮侯 Lǐ Yángōng (1541–1599), as the catalog’s dynasty designation of Qīng and the work’s transmitted dating make the identification incompatible).
About the work
A Qīng-era clinical handbook by an otherwise obscure physician. The Jìchéng 笈成 modern Chinese-medical canon catalog identifies the work as composed in 1736 with the earliest extant printing dated Jiāqìng 17 / 1812; the catalog dates and the Qīng dynasty designation are followed here. The work’s extent and detailed content are not preserved in the surviving hxwd transcription (which is header-only).
The catalog metadata for KR3er123 attributes the work to Lǐ Yángōng — a name shared with the late-Míng Wànlì-era Marquis of Línhuái (1541–1599, author of the Rìběn kǎo 日本考). The two figures are not the same: the late-Míng Marquis was a literatus-administrator, not a medical writer, and is incompatible with the 1736 composition date. The Qīng-era Yīshī mìjí author is a different (and apparently otherwise undocumented) Lǐ Yángōng.
Prefaces
The hxwd _001.txt is header-only and does not transcribe the body or prefatory matter.
Abstract
The work is poorly documented in standard Chinese-medical bibliography. The 1736 composition date and 1812 print date are from the Jìchéng tradition; substantive verification would require consultation of the Zhōngguó zhōngyī gǔjí zǒngmù 中國中醫古籍總目.
Not in CBDB.
Translations and research
No European-language translation or substantial secondary study of the Yī-shī mì-jí located.
Other points of interest
The work is a useful case of the limits of late-Imperial Chinese-medical bibliography: a securely-attested name (Lǐ Yángōng) is reused across centuries for unrelated authors, and the disambiguation in standard catalogs is incomplete.
Links
- 醫師秘笈 (Jìchéng)
- Person notes 李言恭 (author).