Chen Ziming (English name)

Japanese: 陳自明 - ちんじめい（英語表記）Chén Zì míng

A clinical physician from the Southern Song Dynasty in China. Dates of birth and death unknown. His pen name was Liangfu. He was from Linchuan (Jiangxi Province). Born into a family that had been medical practitioners for three generations, he became a professor of medicine in Jiankang Prefecture (Nanjing). He is known as the author of the books "The Complete Guide to Good Medicine for Women," "Essentials of Surgery," and "A Full Look at the Complete Guide to Good Medicine for Women," which had a great influence on later generations. However, "The Complete Guide to Good Medicine for Women" was subsequently revised and published many times by Xiong Jun and Xue Ji, and it is said that only the Siku Quanshu version and the Korean version held by the Imperial Household Agency's Archives and Mausolea Department remain in the original form, and no complete copy of "A Full Look at the Complete Guide to Good Medicine for Women" remains.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，南宋時代の臨床医家。生没年不詳。字は良甫。臨川(江西省)の人。3代にわたって医を業とした家に生まれ，建康府(南京)の医学教授となった。後世に大きな影響を残した《婦人大全良方》《外科精要》《管見大全良方》の撰者として知られている。ただし《婦人大全良方》はその後，熊均（ゆうきん）や薛己（せつき）が手を加えてたびたび刊行し，原本の姿を伝えているのは，四庫全書本と宮内庁書陵部所蔵の朝鮮本だけといわれ，《管見大全良方》の完本は残っていない。

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