This book is the nineteenth volume of Selected Rare Manuscripts of Ancient Chinese Medical Texts. It brings together three rarely circulated manuscript collections of medical cases, punctuated and collated by Zhao Ehua, and is included in Selected Rare Manuscripts of Ancient Chinese Medical Texts. Clinical Medical Cases was compiled by Zhang Xiangsun, drawing on cases from physicians in Shanghai and neighboring areas in the late Qing and early Republican periods. These cases are primary records, mostly unpolished, covering internal medicine, external medicine, pediatrics, and gynecology. Some involve only a single consultation, others multiple follow-ups, and all are recorded as they occurred, even outcomes such as “the prescription was not taken, and the patient soon died of phlegm obstruction and rising qi.” In the case of Jiang Keguang, for example, thirty consultations are documented in sequence, from the defense, qi, construction, and blood aspects through recovery, with symptoms, pulse and tongue, pathogenesis, treatment method, and prescriptions all noted, making it a complete sample for studying the differentiation and treatment of warm diseases. The Medical Cases of Mr. Wang Yixiang was collected and transcribed by Huang Zhuoren and others between 1924 and 1934 and is now held at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine as a unique copy. In four volumes, it is not arranged by disease type and mostly lacks headings; it discusses mainly seasonal and warm diseases, malaria, and dysentery, with some cases involving women and children. Its prescriptions often cite the classics and frequently use pills and powders alongside decoctions. The Prescriptions of Xu Yangtian is a record of Xu Yangtian’s clinical prescriptions from the Qing dynasty, mostly one prescription per consultation with few follow-up annotations. Before each prescription, the disease name, symptoms, etiology and pathogenesis, and pattern differentiation and treatment method are briefly stated; the language is plain, the differentiation apt, and the medication precise and focused. The three works are similar in genre yet distinct in character. They offer insight into the clinical thinking of physicians in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region and preserve the original appearance of modern Chinese medical manuscripts, making them valuable for research in medical history and bibliography as well as for clinical reference.
这套“中医古籍珍稀抄本精选”由段逸山主编，上海、南京中医药大学的医史文献专家承担点校、句读，2004年由上海科学技术出版社以简体字排印出版，全二十册共收抄本五十余种。第十九册所收三种医案，共同点是“未刊”与“实录”：张骧孙《临诊医案》保留清末民初上海一带医家的原始诊疗痕迹，不事润色；《汪艺香先生医案》为南京中医药大学馆藏孤本，论病以温病、疟痢为多；《徐养恬方案》则简到“仅数字而已”，却句句落在辨证上。对今日读者，其价值不在辞藻而在真实：病程如何转折、方药如何随证加减、何时力有不逮，都写在同一页纸上。研习温病、想看清“卫气营血”在具体病人身上如何展开，或关心近代江南医家处方习惯者，值得置于案头。
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