Song B Y, Chen T
Institute for the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing100700, China.
School of Traditional Chinese Medcine,Captial Medical University, Beijing100069, China.
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2024 Sep 28;54(5):290-295. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20201029-00173.
has forty volumes, compiled by Lou Ying in the Ming Dynasty. The classification of this book was based on the diseases of viscera and relevant treatment methods. It has unique literature research value because it involved a large number of medical literature before the Ming Dynasty including and many great works of popular physicians after that. By comparing with , it can be seen that there are 577 references from in , involving 78 archive or physician abbreviation with 66 ancient books or works of doctors. This means that 78 abbreviation in were out of 220 abbreviation in . Therefore, it indicates that plays an important role in compiling. In the process of citing , made some mistakes of citation, such as wrong provenance because of the original sources unchecked or the trace unknown, wrong spelling of names, confusion because of abbreviation, misunderstanding because of similarity, and a book with different names. These issues of citation style of and their utilisation in practice provide meaningful references for textual research.