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Jiaozheng jubing ji 校正駒病集

Aug 19, 2023 © Ulrich Theobald

Jiaozheng jubing ji 校正駒病集 "Annotated and revised collection of diseases of colts and foals" is a book on veterinary medicine circulating in the province of Shaanxi during the late imperial period. In 1959 the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine (Xumu Shouyi Yanjiusuo 畜牧獸醫研究所) discovered several medical treatises dealing with the care of young and juvenile animals, among them Ju'er bian quanjuan 駒兒編全卷, Maluo juzi lun 馬騾駒子論, and Ju'er bing wenda 駒兒病問答. The content of the three books is mostly identical and seems to go back to a common source of knowledge and experience. The authors and the date of compilation are unknown, but the first of the three is dated 1909.

The Institute carefully matched and collated the texts of the three books, with the Maluo juzu lun as the guiding text, and created a unified book, edited with the title Jiaozheng jubing ji, with critical annotations for each paragraph and statement. The text is arranged according to diseases of the five organs liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidneys, following the traditional concept of Chinese medicine of the Five Organs (zang-fu 臟腑). Other diseases are assembled in a section called "methods for miscellaneous symptoms" (zazheng fang 雜癥方). The whole book describes 75 different symptoms and treatments for them, with an appendix of 16 problems and treatments during pregnancy and the postnatal phase. It was published in 1980 by the Nongye Chubanshe 農業出版社.

Source:
Zhang Quanxin 張泉鑫 (1991). "Jiaozheng jubing ji 校正駒病集", in Zhongguo nongye baike quanshu 中國農業百科全書, Vol. Zhong shouyi 中獸醫卷 (Beijing: Nongye chubanshe), 122.