张永泰

Zhang Yongtai: public information about this author is very limited, and the existing records only indicate an association with the collation and publication of traditional Chinese medical literature, with ten works held in the collection. Judging from these works, the scope centers on Chinese medical classics and on pulse studies, formulary discussions, medical case records and comprehensive medical compilations, such as the Pulse Classic (Maijing), the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet (Jingui Yaolue), the upper and lower volumes of the Golden Mirror of Medicine (Yizong Jinjian), Medical Revelations from the West (Yixue Zhongzhong Canxi Lu), and Li Xuewen's Rhymed Prose on Topical Treatment (Liyue Pianwen), together with a photographic collated edition of the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet. His work therefore appears to focus on photographic reprints and textual collation. Such books are mostly required classics for students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, preserving original texts and comparing editions rather than adding extensive commentary. Owing to insufficient data, his native place, dates, teachers and specific career cannot be established, so this note can only sketch the direction and documentary value of the works at hand.