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Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders

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In this case Xu Shuwei again intervenes in another physician’s diagnosis and intended treatment. This time someone contested Xu’s suggestion that the treatment is wrong. Xu answered by citing the Treatise to support his diagnosis and prescription. This exchange suggests that whoever objected was familiar with the major prescriptions of Cold Damage but did not thoroughly understand the pathology they treat or their effects.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This reference to ‘interior and exterior’ may allude to the type of injury caused by the disorder, namely interior and exterior, thus referring to the Combining Disorder of the Three Yang mentioned in the previous case. The treatment in this case is a modification of the White Tiger Decoction used in the previous case.

  2. 2.

    See Scheid et al. 2009, pp. 154.

  3. 3.

    This quotation is an incomplete sentence from the Treatise (辨太陽脈證并治下, line 57), see Mitchell, Ye, and Wiseman 1999, pp. 323; Yu 1997, p. 62.

  4. 4.

    Heat Bind [or heat accumulation] is the name of a syndrome caused by accumulation and congestion of heat pathogen. See Zhongyi da cidian, 2nd ed., p. 1409.

  5. 5.

    A similar almost identical discussion appears in Xu’s Shanghan fawei lun, p. 48.

  6. 6.

    Here Xu is repeating the above quotation from the treatise without omissions. See Treatise (辨太陽脈證并治下, line 57), see Mitchell, Ye, and Wiseman 1999, pp. 323; Yu 1997, p. 62.

  7. 7.

    Xu is quoting here from the Treatise (辨太陽脈證并治下, line 59), see Mitchell, Ye, and Wiseman 1999, pp. 320; Yu 1997, p. 62.

  8. 8.

    Here Xu is quoting from the Treatise (辨太陽脈證并治下, line 70), see Mitchell, Ye, and Wiseman 1999, pp. 316; Yu 1997, p. 63.

  9. 9.

    Lin Yi (fl. mid-11th cent.), one of the four chief editors at the Bureau for Revising Medical Books [Jiaozheng yishu ju 校正醫書局], was the editor-in-chief of the Bureau’s 1065 edition of the Treatise.

  10. 10.

    Li Shunbao 2001, p. 447.

  11. 11.

    Scheid et al. 2009, pp. 7–9.

  12. 12.

    Scheid et al. 2009, pp. 19–21.

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  2. Visiting Professor, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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Goldschmidt, A. (2019). Case Number 36. 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_37

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