Sòng Zhàoqí 宋兆淇 (zì Yòufǔ 佑甫, 清), late-Qīng physician of Píngjiāng 平江 (modern Sūzhōu 蘇州). Author of Nánbìng biéjiàn 南病別鑑 (KR3eg029), preface dated Guāngxù wùyín 戊寅 mèngchūn (1878).
He was the maternal grandson of 薛公望 Xuē Gōngwàng, a Sūzhōu Shānghán-tradition physician whose Shānghán gǔfēng 傷寒古風 (a Shānghán differential-syndrome song) is one of the three texts compiled in the Nánbìng biéjiàn. Sòng’s medical practice in Píngjiāng was substantial — one of the prefaces to Nánbìng biéjiàn records that the prefacer himself had been unable to sleep for a long period, had been treated unsuccessfully by various Sūzhōu physicians, and was cured at a single visit by Sòng; the prefacer at 60+ at the time of writing “still slept the sleep of the deeply rested”.
Doctrinal position: explicitly southern-medicine-particularist. Sòng holds that the geographically and climatically distinct features of southern (Jiāngnán) China — low-lying, damp, soft constitutions — produce a clinical picture in which Shānghán presentations are only 1–2 cases in 100, while damp-warm (shīrè) presentations are 8–9 in 10. Treating southern damp-warm with northern Shānghán methods is, in his sharp formulation, “fundamentally divergent” (大相徑庭). The book title — “Distinguishing-Mirror of Southern Diseases” — captures this programmatic position.
No CBDB record. Source: Nánbìng biéjiàn prefaces.