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The year recorded in this case, 1149, makes it the latest case in the book. It establishes that Xu compiled the book between 1149 and 1154, the year he died.
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For further discussion on the idea of contagion or chuanran 傳染 in pre-modern China, see Leung 2010.
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One of the meanings of the character jing 京 is ‘a granary,’ which here I take it to mean grains. See also Liu and Li eds. 2006, p. 70 (note 8).
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This disorder is discussed in the Treatise, line 392 (辨陰陽易差後勞復病證并治, line 1, Yu 1997, pp. 87); for further discussion see Mitchell, Ye, and Wiseman 1999, pp. 596–598. Yin–yang Exchange disorder arises from sexual intercourse between a female (yin) and a male (yang), one of whom has not fully recovered from a disease (or a tabooed period after childbirth). See Zhongyi da cidian, 2nd ed., p. 746.
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Here Xu is using a variant for the original drug’s name. This drug is originally recorded in Bencao jingji zhu (本草經集注 Divine Husbandman’s Materia Medica, with Collected Annotations, ca. 500CE) as Male Rat’s excrements (mushufen 牡鼠糞). In Zhu Gong’s Leizheng huoren shu the name is jiashufen 貑鼠糞 (juan 17, p. 110, pub. 1108). Xu probably consulted Zhu’s book, from which he quotes in a number of cases. For further details, see Zhongyao da cidian, 2nd edition, vol. 1, p. 1584 and Zhongyi da cidian, 2nd ed., P. 741.
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The formula is detailed in the Treatise (辨陰陽易差後勞復病證并治, line 2); see Yu 1997, pp. 87. The formula is made from a charred piece of fabric from the crotch of a woman’s trousers. This ingredient does not appear in the materia medica, but information about their use has been passed down in formularies.
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Goldschmidt, A. (2019). Case Number 57. In: Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders. Archimedes, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06103-6_58
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