About the author

Shen Juren is an author about whom little biographical information is available; neither nationality, dates of birth and death, nor specific personal experiences are clearly recorded in public sources. What can be confirmed is that two works by this author are held in the collection, namely Shen Juren's Medical Cases and Wang Zhongqi's Medical Cases, both belonging to the genre of traditional Chinese medical case records and commonly classified under medicine, health, and medical health. The medical case is an important form in traditional Chinese medicine, documenting the process of clinical diagnosis and treatment, emphasizing the matching of treatment methods to observed patterns and the application of formulas accordingly; such records preserve physicians' experience and reflect their approaches to pattern differentiation. Judging from the titles, Shen Juren's writing centers on actual clinical cases, focusing on records of practice in a plain and concrete style that stresses presenting symptoms and treatments. Texts of this kind are of reference value to students of Chinese medicine and offer later readers a glimpse of the clinical work of the physicians involved. Owing to limited public information, details of Shen Juren's training, life, and scholarly lineage cannot be verified, and the direction of the author's writings can be grasped only from the surviving case records.

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Publishers

Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers