古今医统大全
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古今医统大全
📅 明👤 Xu Chunfu
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Original (Classical Chinese)
博采众方，古今一揆。
Pinyin
Bó cǎi zhòng fāng, gǔ jīn yī kuí.
English Translation
Medicine is a matter of insight. Uniting the medical tradition of past and present and gathering the essentials of the many books, tracing them to their source and following them to their outflow, one becomes clear in mind and unconfused in treatment.
📝 Commentary
Xu Chunfu's great Ming compendium. The passage states its aim of uniting the medical tradition across the ages and tracing doctrines from source to outflow.