滑寿

Hua Shou is an ancient physician of traditional Chinese medicine. Publicly available information about his life is very limited, and neither his nationality nor his dates of birth and death are clearly recorded; his surviving works are chiefly medical writings. The library holds three of his works, including Zhenjia Shuyao, Du Suwen Chao, and a duplicate entry of Zhenjia Shuyao, commonly classified under medicine. Judging from their titles and subject matter, Hua Shou focused on pulse diagnosis and on the study of the Suwen: the former belongs to the foundational categories of clinical diagnosis, while the latter involves theoretical organization, excerpting, and annotation of a classic of Chinese medicine, suggesting that his scholarship emphasized the study of classics and the summary of diagnostic methods. Because historical sources are scarce, details of his life, associates, and scholarly background cannot be reliably established. This introduction therefore relies only on the library's work information to outline the direction of his writings, highlighting his writing on pulse studies and the organization of classical texts for readers' reference.