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In this case, similar to the last one, we find that Xu relocated again, probably due to the unstable situation in the region resulting from the Jurchen (Jin Dynasty) invasion of the south in 1130, or to widespread banditry. He does not say why he fled to the north of the Yangzi River.
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Notes
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Tao Jing-shen 2009. 662–63.
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Zhao Lancai 2012, p. 95.
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I am not clear how to translate these three characters. “Lishazhong” may be a place name or it may mean ‘in Lisha Village’.
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Weiyang is another name of Yangzhou 揚州 (a city in present day Jiangsu Province). See, Tan 1982, Zhongguo lishi dituji, Songdai, N. Song 22–23 (4):7 or S. Song 62 (2): 7 and Wei 1995, p. 1080. It should be noted that the outskirts of a city to the north of the Yangzi is unlikely to be safer during this period.
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Liu and Li, in their modern edition of the book (Xu Shuwei yixue quanshu 2006, p. 68), have the character as ‘yellow’ 黃 rather than ‘painful’ 痛, as the four recensions of the book show. They claim that the original character was indeed the latter, but they change it to the former based on the context. This change makes sense in the context of the case.
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This sentence appears twice in Xu’s Shanghan fawei lun #49. Xu probably draws on Chao Yuanfang’s discussion of “yellow disorders” (Zhubing yuanhou lun, p. 361).
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Xu’s specification can be interpreted in two ways. The first is as two medications, since the sentence includes both words for ‘decoction’ and ‘powder’. Xu recorded the first decoction in his Puji benshi fang as well, p. 147. If we accept this interpretation, as Zhao Lancai does (2012, p. 95), Xu is abbreviating Artemisiae Scopariae Decoction, writing Yinchen tang 茵陳湯 instead of Yinchen hao tang 茵陳蒿湯 (Scheid et al. 2009, pp. 710–712). On the second medication see Scheid et al. 2009, pp. 724–728.
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Goldschmidt, A. (2019). Case Number 46. In: Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders. Archimedes, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06103-6_47
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