Hearth Interactive

People

Master Cang (倉公), Chunyu Yi (淳于意)

A Han doctor whose case records survive in the Records of the Historian.

2nd century BCE

Preface to the Treatise on Cold Damage

Zhang Zhongjing, Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases, preface · c. 200–206 (within ten years of the start of the Jian'an era, 196)

[17]

上古有神農黄帝岐伯伯髙雷公少俞少師仲文中世有長桑扁鵲漢有公乘陽慶及倉公下此以往未之聞也

In ancient times there were Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, Qibo, Bogao, Leigong, Shaoyu, Shaoshi, and Zhongwen. In the ages after them came Changsang and Bian Que, and in the Han dynasty, Gongsheng Yang Qing and Master Cang. Since then, I have heard of no one like them.