The Medical Cases of Ding Jiwan

苏丽娜 / 周晴 / Ding JiwanShanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers2010

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Word count
175K words
Chapters
40
Series
Medical Case Records of a Modern Shanghai Physician
ISBN
9787547800744

Tags

Health and Medicine Gender Relations Ding's Internal MedicineTCM Clinical PracticeTCM ClassicsSupporting Vital QiDirect DiscipleFamily LineageMedical CareerAcademic ThoughtMenghe Medical SchoolModern Shanghai

Summary

Ding Jiwan (1903–1961) was a leading figure of the Ding lineage of the Menghe medical school, the eldest grandson and direct disciple of Ding Ganren, and one of the celebrated physicians of Shanghai. He inherited the family learning and was versed in internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology, and pediatrics. In clinical practice he emphasized supporting the upright qi and dispelling pathogenic factors, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, and ensuring the clear rises while the turbid descends, waiting for the upright qi to recover so that the pathogen departs of itself. This book is organized around his life and scholarly thought, beginning with a brief account of his family background, his career in medicine, and his efforts to defend Chinese medicine during the modern struggles on its behalf, thereby sketching the foundations of his learning. The main body consists of two parts, medical cases and medical talks: over three hundred case records and thirty-four talks, covering internal medicine conditions such as cold damage, seasonal pathogens, wind-warmth, latent warmth, damp-warmth, phlegm-damp, dysentery, cholera, measles, wind-stroke, dizziness, chest impediment, cough, blood disorders, depletion, swelling, phlegm-fluid retention, impediment patterns, and strangury-turbidity, as well as gynecological disorders of menstruation, leukorrhea, pregnancy, and childbirth, external conditions such as abscesses, boils, and phlegm-nodules, and ENT conditions such as throat measles and throat impediment. The writing follows the Menghe tradition of narration interwoven with commentary, with each case narrated and followed by a note, and related cases and talks placed side by side, so that readers encounter the original records while grasping Ding's diagnostic reasoning and his techniques of formula composition. A chronology of Ding Jiwan's life is appended.

Editor's review

学孟河丁氏内科，绕不开丁甘仁，也绕不开承其衣钵的长孙丁济万。市面上丁氏医案选本不少，但把医案与医话对照编排、逐案加按的，这一本做得比较细。三百余则医案覆盖伤寒温病、内伤杂病与妇外五官各科，医话三十四篇则像是一串串诊余随笔，讲六经、讲湿温、讲吐血宜忌、讲霍乱病因，往往几句话就把一个病机的关窍点透。夹叙夹议的行文保留了民国海上医案的旧日气息，读来不枯涩，按语也克制，不喧宾夺主。对临床医生来说，这里是可对照的辨证路径和用药分寸；对中医文献与医史研究者来说，它同时提供了丁济万生平、学术主张与近代中医抗争的一条线索。附于书末的大事年表，便于把单篇医案放回人物的时间轴上去看。

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  1. 先读生平简介与学术思想两节，把握丁氏扶正祛邪、运脾和胃的基本立场。
  2. 按病证门类选读，一案读完先自拟治法，再看按语，对照差距。
  3. 把相邻的医话当作医案的注解来读，二者互为印证。
  4. 临证遇到相似病机时回查相应门类，但切勿直接照搬方药。

About the publisher

Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers China · Founded in 1956

Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers is a publisher known for professional books in the natural sciences, engineering technology, medicine and health, and agricultural technology. Its catalogue of 759 titles covers popular science, examinations, medicine, agriculture and forestry, and social culture. Representative books include several editions of The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands; the first and second volumes of Morris Kline's Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times; and the fourth edition of Molecular Pharmacognosy by Huang Luqi. Other representative authors include Feynman, Wei Xian and Zhang Zhibin. The publisher has developed distinctive strengths in classic translated works in physics and mathematics as well as in medical and agricultural professional titles, while also publishing popular science, textbooks and teaching materials, and journals. Its author resources draw on internationally renowned scientists and domestic specialists.

Contents

  1. Life
  2. Scholarly Thought
  3. Cases and Talks
  4. Talk 1: The Sage Treats Before Illness
  5. Talk 2: The Character of the Physician
  6. Talk 3: Appearance and Qi Transformation
  7. Internal Medicine
  8. Talk 4: On the Six Channels
  9. Talk 5: Releasing the Exterior in Chinese Medicine Should Distinguish the Six Channels
  10. Talk 6: Releasing the Exterior and Attacking the Interior
  11. Cold Damage Cases
  12. Seasonal Pathogen Cases
  13. Talk 7: Yin and Yang Should Not Be Unequal
  14. Talk 8: Sweating Methods Differ in Yin and Yang Deficiency
  15. Talk 9: Distinguishing Yin and Yang Irritability
  16. Wind-Warmth Cases
  17. Latent Warmth Cases
  18. Talk 10: Treating Damp-Warmth
  19. Damp-Warmth Cases
  20. Phlegm-Damp Cases
  21. Talk 11: On Dysentery
  22. Dysentery Cases
  23. Talk 12: My View on the Shared Causes of Cholera in China and the West
  24. Talk 13: Random Notes on Cholera
  25. Cholera Cases
  26. Measles Cases
  27. Talk 14: An Analysis of Acute and Chronic Infantile Convulsions
  28. Talk 15: On Treating Wind-Stroke
  29. Wind-Stroke Cases
  30. Dizziness Cases
  31. Headache Cases
  32. Chest Impediment Cases
  33. Epigastric Stuffiness Cases
  34. Talk 16: Treatment of Insomnia
  35. Insomnia Cases
  36. Talk 17: Restraint Is Foremost in Winter
  37. Talk 18: Treating Flaccidity and Limpness
  38. Talk 19: Reply to a Reader's Question
  39. Depletion Cases
  40. Talk 20: An Overview of Cough

FAQ

这本书和抄本《丁济万医案》是同一部书吗？ 不完全相同。旧题丁济万撰的《丁济万医案》为医案医话类文献，辑案四百二十则，现存赵伯渊等抄本，藏上海中医药大学图书馆；本书是2010年由苏丽娜、周晴编著的整理研究本，收录医案309则、医话34篇，并附生平、学术思想与大事年表。
书里收录了多少则医案和医话？ 据出版社及书店的图书信息，全书整理收录医案309个、医话34篇，正文226页，约17.5万字。
没有中医基础能读懂吗？ 会比较吃力。书中使用大量中医术语与方剂名，按语精炼，默认读者具备辨证基础；零基础读者建议先补中医诊断与方剂入门，再回头读医案。
书末的大事年表有什么用途？ 年表按时间梳理丁济万的生平、行医与参与中医界事务的经历，可帮助读者把具体医案放回其学术成长与社会背景中理解，也便于医史研究者查考。
医案与医话交错编排有什么好处？ 编著者把相关联的医案与医话前后紧排，读者读完一则病例，紧接着就能读到丁氏对该病机的论述，案与论互相印证，更易体会其辨证思路与用方配伍技巧。

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About the author

苏丽娜 Author

Su Lina is an author about whom limited public information is available. Three works can currently be confirmed, spanning the categories of medicine, social culture, and health. Judging from Medical Ladder and Dr. Huang's Hundred Questions on Gynecology, she focuses on popularizing medical knowledge and organizing clinical experience; her topics are close to ordinary readers' health needs and show a practical, question-and-answer style of writing. A Study of Mongolian Ecological Customary Law, meanwhile, indicates that her interests extend into the field of ethnic ecological customary law, involving the intersection of social culture and legal customs. Because her dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background cannot be verified, her writing style and influence can only be briefly assessed on the basis of the existing titles: her works balance professional content with accessibility and touch on both health popularization and ethnic cultural research, making them suitable for readers interested in medical common knowledge and ethnic ecological culture.

周晴 Author

Zhou Qing is an author about whom limited public information is currently available; her writing centers mainly on applied psychology. One work by her is included in the library: Making Peace with Psychological Trauma. Judging from the title and its subject category, the author focuses on recognizing, understanding, and repairing psychological trauma, addressing general readers on how to face past pain and build a new relationship with their own experiences. Writing of this kind typically requires translating professional psychological concepts into accessible everyday language, remaining careful about trauma-related issues while offering readers practical directions. Because basic details such as the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name are not yet clear, her personal history and academic background cannot be introduced here. The available clues indicate only that Zhou Qing writes on the theme of psychological trauma; her output is limited, but the subject speaks to real psychological needs and offers some reference value for readers concerned with emotional distress and self-healing.

Ding Jiwan Author

Ding Jiwan, whose English name is given as Ding Jiwan, has no clearly recorded dates of birth and death or nationality in publicly available sources, and the public information currently accessible is limited. One work by this author is held in the collection, namely Ding Jiwan's Medical Case Records, commonly classified under medicine and health and under relationships. As the title suggests, the book belongs to the genre of medical case records, and its content presumably consists chiefly of documented clinical diagnoses and treatments, prescriptions, and the reasoning behind pattern differentiation; it is the most direct textual basis for understanding his medical experience. Because background information such as his life, education, lineage of teachers, and medical career is lacking, this introduction makes no speculation on those points. On the available evidence, Ding Jiwan's writing is embodied in the traditional genre of medical case records: organized around specific cases, faithfully describing conditions and treatments, and practical and documentary in style rather than given to theoretical exposition. Such case records have some reference value for the study of clinical practice in traditional medicine. Readers who wish to know the author further should rely on the main text of this book as primary material and verify it against reliable sources in medical history.