《医鼎阶》作者及学术特点

The author of Yi cling fie （ Stepping to the Peak of Medicine ） and its characteristics

《医鼎阶》是清末民初福建省长汀客家医家黄元英的著作。黄元英，光绪二十年（1894）中举人，仍以医为业，曾任江西省立医学堂教员、汀郡中学堂学监。他善用经方，注重脉诊，精于临床各科，所著《医鼎阶》，现藏上杭客家族谱博物馆，以章回体小说的形式记录了许多病案，并阐述了深奥的医学道理，从一个侧面反映了当时福建客家医药的发展水平，对现今深入挖掘与传播传统中医药亦颇有启迪。

Yi ding fie （ Stepping to the Peak of Medicine） was written by Hnang Yuanying, a Hakka physician of Changting, Fujian at the turn of the Qing Dynasty and Republican period. Being a successful candidate of the imperial exam at the provincial level in the 20th year of Guangxu reign （1894） of the Qing Dynasty, he still practise as a physician. He had been a teacher of the Jiangxi Provincial Medical School and a supervisor of the Tingjun Middle School. He was conversant with the use of classical prescriptions, paid high attention to pulse taking. His work Yi ding fie is now collected in the Museum of Hakka Family Tree in Shanghang County, which was written in the form of traditional Chinese chapters of novel, bearing many case records, elaborating medical theory, reflecting from an aspect the medical level of Hakka medicine of that time, enlightening the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine and its spreading for modern people.