《摄生要义》作者初考

Examining the author of She Sheng YaoYi

《摄生要义》为明代养生学著作,汇集诸家养生之要,传播广泛,影响深远。但目前《中国中医古籍总目》与《中国古籍总目》对其作者记载不一,其他工具书对作者身份年代记述也是抵牾互见。以传记史志、辞典书目及其他相关文献为依据,对《摄生要义》作者进行初步考证,以期对医史文献研究有所助益。

She Sheng Yao Yi,a medical book on how to keep fit and healthy in the Ming Dynasty,contained a variety of theoretical ideas for doing so from diverse traditional Chinese medicine physicians and had great influence.However,its author has not been identified because the author of this book in Bibliography of Ancient Books of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Bibliography of Ancient Chinese Books is claimed to be different.The authors dates of birth and death also vary in other relevant reference books.This paper examines and identifies the author of this book based on biographies,historical records,dictionaries and other relevant documents,with a view to contributing to the research of medical history literature.