This is a book often overlooked because its title is too brief. Its value lies not in its size—just over 200 pages and 160 cases—but in whose hands it came from. The cases were compiled from clinical records of various departments at Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Those who wrote the prescriptions include a group of Shanghai physicians such as Ru Shimei, Xu Zhongcai, Xu Songnian, Wang Yurun, and Xu Boyuan. Today most of these names appear only in bibliographies and lineage records, yet the actual pulse records, tongue presentations, and modifications of formulas and drugs from those years remain on the page as they were. The most immediate benefit of reading this book is that one can see the process of thinking. Each case begins with the symptoms, distinguishes cold and heat, deficiency and excess, determines the treatment method, and then settles on specific formulas, drugs, and dosages; at follow-up visits it shows how the prescription was adjusted according to the pattern. The chain is complete. For readers who have already memorized formulas and can identify basic patterns, such a complete chain calibrates clinical judgment better than reading ten textbooks. In addition, the book covers all departments—internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, traumatology, dermatology, ophthalmology, and acupuncture—making it well suited for examining one's outlook beyond one's own specialty. One caveat is the mark of its era: the writing style, terminology, and certain expressions of the time all carry the flavor of the 1970s; some cases lack modern investigative support, and evaluations of efficacy are brief. It is a document to be read with judgment, not a manual whose prescriptions can be copied directly. With this in mind, the reader will gain much more from turning its pages.
这是一本常常被书名列得过简而错过的书。它的价值不在体量——全书不过二百余页、一百六十则医案——而在“来自谁的手”。医案由上海中医学院附属龙华医院各科诊疗记录整理而来，写方的人包括茹十眉、徐仲才、徐嵩年、王玉润、徐伯远等一批沪上医家，如今这些名字多数只出现在文献索引与师承谱系里，而当年真实的脉案、舌象、方药加减却原样留在纸上。 读本书最直接的收益，是看得到“想的过程”。每则病案从症候入手，辨其寒热虚实，定其治法，再落到具体方药与剂量，复诊时又如何随证调整，链条完整。对已经背过方剂、能辨基本证候的读者来说，这种完整链条比读十本教科书更能校准手感。此外，本书分科齐备，内、妇、儿、外、伤、皮肤、眼、针灸皆有收录，正适合用来检视自己在本专业之外的眼界。 需要说明的是它的年代印记：行文风格、术语用法、某些当时的表述，都带着七十年代的底色；部分病案缺乏现代检查佐证，疗效评价也较简略。它属于“带着判断力去读”的文献，而非可以照方抄用的手册。对这一点有心理准备，翻起来收获会多得多。
Shanghai People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher whose list focuses on academic monographs and general-interest titles in philosophy, social sciences, politics and law, economics and management, and history. Among its books are Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties History in the Chinese Dynastic History series; The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in foreign literature; the Wenjing Classical Translation Illustrated Edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies of Euripides; and works of social theory such as Max Weber's Economy and Society and Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Its authors include Wang Zhongluo, J.R.R. Tolkien, Luo Niansheng, and Zhou Zuoren.
