Book/Printed Material Xian xing zhai bi ji : si juan 先醒齋筆記 : 四卷
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Title
- Xian xing zhai bi ji : si juan
Other Title
- 先醒齋筆記 : 四卷
Summary
- Four chapters; this original version includes one chapter of "Dou ke yi zhi" ("Other remedies for smallpox"), which was omitted from the later Si ku quan shu version.
- Xian xing zhai bi ji (Medical notes from the Xianxing studio) is a medical work compiled by the Ming physician Ding Yuanjian (1560-1625). It is an original edition issued during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty. The encyclopedia Si ku quan shu (The complete collection of the four treasuries) lists only one similar work by Zhuang Jiguang. Both Ding and Zhuang were students of Miao Xiyong (1546-1627), the renowned late Ming physician. Ding had been friends with Miao during the Wanli years and frequently discussed medical matters with him. Ding's work was based on Miao's clinical cases, prescriptions, and medical experience. However, this text is Ding's original work, in original print. Si ku ti yao (Annotated catalog of the complete Imperial Library) lists the work with Miao Xiyong as the author. The works by these physicians, however, differ in size. Miao's original work was five leaves long; Zhuang Jiguang's had one juan, in 41 leaves; Ding Yuanjian's work has four juan. Later Miao Xiyong revised and expanded Ding's work, and changed the title to Xianxingzhai yi xue guang bi ji (Expanded medical notes from the Xianxing Studio), with a preface written by Ding Yuanjian, dated 1613. It thus became a comprehensive medical work, in four juan, in four volumes. The first three juan cover a wide range of topics on various common internal, external, gynecological, and infant diseases, such as stroke, diarrhea, malaria and dysentery; their cures; formulas, and cases; as well as brief discussions of the treatments. Also included are discussions of diseases of women and children. The last juan covers the norms of treatment and ways to prepare drugs, pills, and ointments. The work also contains an essay on the treatments of smallpox as well as the author's preface (dated 1613). The Library of Congress also has a copy of the Chongzhen edition (1628-44) of this work. World Digital Library.
Names
- Ding, Yuanjian, jin shi 1586
- Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [China : s.n., Ming Wanli 41 nian, 1613]
Notes
- - In case.
- - Also available in digital form.
- - 十行二十字 小字雙行二十字. Ten lines, with twenty characters per line; small characters in paired lines of twenty characters per line.
- - 明丁元薦輯。四庫全書蓋據莊繼光廣本著錄，此元薦原書原刻本也。元薦繼光均受方於繆希雍，提要遂竟題希雍名，似有朱諦。今以兩本相校，原本炮製法僅五葉，繼光廣為炮灸大法，成書一卷，凡四十一葉。又此本有痘科異治一卷，元薦謂為希雍得之九江宋氏者，廣本删去。自序萬曆四十一年 (1613).
Medium
- 4 v.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2012402210
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