Drawing from Antiquity on Cold Damage

Drawing from Antiquity on Cold Damage is a monograph on Cold Damage studies compiled by the modern physician Zhou Qiyin (1897–1968; original name Lichuan; native of Yin County, Zhejiang). Completed in 1932, it was printed by the Siming Yiyi Book House in 1933, with prefaces by physicians Zhang Shanlei (Zhang Shouyi) and Liu Ruideng. The book takes the then-newly emerged Hunan ancient text of Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases (known as the "Xiang ancient text") as its base and compares it clause by clause with the received Song edition of Treatise on Cold Damage, aiming to "supplement the Song edition's omissions and correct the errors of past commentators." It is divided into three volumes: the upper volume covers the pulse method and the cold damage preface; the middle covers warm disease, summerheat stroke, heat disease, dampness disease, and the diagnosis and treatment of cold damage; the lower covers the six channels of cold damage and the various "may and may not" chapters. The book collects 165 lost passages absent from the Song edition, corrects 79 errors in the received text, and includes lost formulas (recorded variously as 80 or 88, several fewer than in the Xiang text), with Zhou's interlinear notes explaining formula meanings. It is the first systematic collation monograph after the Xiang ancient text appeared, pioneering the "collate the present with the ancient" research path, preserving chapters such as the Cold Damage Preface and Pulse Differentiation, and using the ancient text to cross-verify with the Inner Canon and Classic of Difficulties, advancing later research on ancient texts such as the Baiyun Ge edition. It holds dual value in textual scholarship and clinical reference in modern Cold Damage studies.