COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND

    MEDICAL CARE

    General Editor

    JOHN 岛1. JANZEN

    Founding Editor

    CHARLES LESLIE

    Editorial Board

    DON BATES, M.D. , McGill University

    FREDERICK L. DUNN, M.D. , University of California, San Francisco

    KRIS HEGGENHOUGEN, University of London

    PATRICIA L. ROSENFIELD, World Health Organization

    MAGDALENA SOKOLOWSKA, Polish Academy of Sciences

    PAUL U. UNSCHULD, University of Munich

    FRANCIS ZIMMERMANN, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences

    Sociales, Paris

    For a list of books in the series Comparative

    Studies of Health Systems and Medical

    Care, see back of book. The Chinese Medical Classics

    NAN-CHING

    The Classic of Difficult Issues

    With commentaries by Chinese and J apanese authors

    from the third through the twentieth century

    translated and annotαted by

    Paul U. Unschuld

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

    Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

    Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

    University ofCalifornia Press, Ltd.

    London, England

    Copyright ( 1986 by The Regents of the U niversity of California

    Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

    Pien Ch'io, 5th cent. B.C

    Nan-ching-the Classic ofDifficult Issues

    (Comparative studies of health systems and medical

    care)

    Chinese text of Nan-ching with translation,commentaries, and notes in English.

    IncJudes index.

    1. Medicine, Chinese-Early works to 1800.

    2. Pien Ch'io, 5th cent. B.C. Nan-ching. 1. Unschuld,Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- . 11. Title

    111. Series. [DNL岛1: WZ 290 P614n]

    RI27.1.P54131985 610 84-28049

    ISBN 0-520-05372-9

    Printed in the United States of America

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    The paper used in 由is publication meets the minimum

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    (Permanence 01 Paper). e Contents

    PART I. PROLEGOMENA

    1. Introductory Remarks 3

    2. The Historical Significance of the N an-ching 11

    3. The Contents ofthe Nan-ching 17

    4. The Origin ofthe Nan-ching 29

    5. The Reception of the Nan-ching in Later

    Centuries 35

    Notes to Part 1 53

    PART II. TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARIES,AND NOTES 61

    Preliminary N ote 62

    Chapter One: The Movement in the Vessels and

    Its Diagnostic Significance 65

    The First DijJicult Issue 65

    The Second DijJicult Issue 81

    The ThirdD伊cult Issue 91

    The Fourth DijJicult Issue 101

    The Fifth D~ 茹cult Issue 113

    The Sixth DijJicult Issue 118

    The Seventh DijJicult Issue 122

    The Eighth DijJicult Issue 130

    The Ninth DijJicult Issue 140

    The Tenth DijJicult Issue 147

    The Eleventh D伊cult Issue 157

    The Twelfth D伊cult Issue 163

    The Thirteenth D伊cult Issue 170

    The Fourteenth D伊cult Issue 181

    V Vl CONTENTS

    The Fifteenth D伊cult Issue 200

    The Sixteenth D伊cult Issue … 219

    The Seventeenth Di 庐cult Issue 237

    The Eighteenth D伊cult Issue 243

    The Nineteenth Di 加cult Issue 259

    The Twentieth D伊cult Issue 268

    The Twenty-First D伊cult Issue 273

    The Twenty-Second Dijjicult Issue 278

    Chapter Two: The Conduits and the Network-

    Vessels

    The Twenty- Third D伊cult Issue 285

    The Twenty-Fourth D伊cult Issue 300

    The T: ωenty-Fifth Dif.页cult Issue 310

    The Twenty-Sixth D伊cult Issue 317 ......