Selected Medical Cases of Veteran Chinese Physicians

Selected Medical Cases of Veteran Chinese Physicians is a Chinese medicine monograph of medical cases and physician talks edited by Ke Limin and published by Heilongjiang Science and Technology Press in November 1981. Compiled from more than four hundred medical cases, physician talks, and papers by several veteran physicians, the 413-page book of about 270,000 characters includes nine physician talks and more than 160 proven cases from internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, the five sense organs, and acupuncture. Most cases are drawn from clinical practice and include both records of diagnosis and treatment for common conditions and concentrated accounts of successful treatment of difficult and complicated cases, such as toxic invasion in occipital carbuncle, scrofula, panniculitis, prominent blue veins in the lower limbs, postpartum urticaria, blood-wind sores, eczema, psoriasis, finger syncope, yin-yang toxin (systemic lupus erythematosus), ulceration of the eyeball, toothache, intractable oral ulcers, hu huo disease (Behçet's disease), and dizziness. The physicians selected are mainly veterans from Heilongjiang such as Gao Zhongshan, Han Beiling, Sun Jichang, Yi Zhenhuan, and Hu Qingshan; the book also includes typical cases by Wang Dejian on treating ear, nose, and throat diseases by supporting the healthy and dispelling pathogenic factors. Each case is generally recorded in the order of symptoms, etiology and pathogenesis, treatment method, prescriptions and medicinals, and outcome, making it easy for readers to follow the reasoning of pattern differentiation and the adjustments of prescriptions, and making it a documentary source for studying clinical experience of Chinese medicine in northeast China in the 1970s and 1980s.