INDEX
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accounts of the strange (zhiguai)
almanacs
ancestors
Annals of Herbs and Trees (the novel) (Caomu chunqiu yanyi)
Annals of Herbs and Trees (the play) (Caomu chunqiu)
aphrodisiacs
apotropaic medicine
Badou Dahuang (badou dahuang)
Baochai. See Xue Baochai
Baoyu. See Jia Baoyu
Bencao gangmu. See Systematic Materia Medica
bian du (bian poison [sore])
“Biblio Materia Medica” (Shu bencao)
“The Bitterness of Filial Piety” (Kuxiao shuo)
black gold pills
blood: definitions
coughing of
and essence
loss of
bone steaming (guzheng)
Cao Xueqin
case histories
Chahua nü. See La Dame aux Camelias
chuanran (contagion)
chuanshi (corpse-transmission)
Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing)
consumption (lao, xulao)
Corpse worms
Cui Yingying
Dai-yu. See Lin Daiyu
demons
depletion
depression. See melancholy
desire. See qing
doctors
Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng). See The Story of the Stone
Du Fu
Du Liniang
emotions
epidemics
encyclopedia
fangshu (formularies, medical recipes)
fei jiehe (tuberculosis)
feng. See wind. See also leprosy
fertility
Flower Shadows behind the Screen (Gelian huaying). See Sequel to Jinping mei
Flowers in the Mirror (Jinghua yuan)
foxes, fox spirits
Gautier, Marguerite
germ theory
ghosts
The Golden Mirror of the Medical Lineage
gender
gu poison (gudu)
gui. See ghosts.
healing (contradistinction from medicine)
The Heart Sutra
Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan)
hun. See soul
involuntary seminal emission
Jia Baoyu
Jia Rui
Journey to the West
karma
King of Medicine (Yao wang)
laozhai. See consumption
La Dame aux Camelias
leishu. See encyclopedia
leprosy (li, mafeng, numbing wind)
Li Ping’er
Li Ruzhen, Flowers in the Mirror (Jinghua yuan)
Li Shizhen, see Systematic Materia Medica (Bencao gangmu)
Liaozhai’s Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyii)
Lin Daiyu
Lin Shu
lineage
Listing the Elegant Practice (Chuanya)
literary logic
literati
lovesickness
Madame Zhou
magic
Marriage Destinies to Awaken the World (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan)
meichuang (Bayberry sores, rotting sores). See syphilis
Meichuang milu (Secret Account of the Rotting Sores Disorder)
melancholy
memory, mnemonics
miasma
Mirror for the Romantic (Fengyue baojian). See The Story of the Stone
“Miss Sophie’s Diary”
Miss Yu (Yu Niang)
Mituo (Mituo seng)
Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting). See also Du Liniang
Pharmaceutical Plays
Physicians. See doctors
Plum in the Golden Vase (Jinping mei)
poetry
pollution
popular knowledge
The Predestined Affinity of Sickness and Jade (Bing yu yuan chuanqi)
pregnancy
prompt notes
retribution
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
ruyi. See scholar-physician
scholar-physician
Seeking No Help from Others for Myriad Things (Wanshi buqiuren)
Sequel to Plum in the Golden Vase (Xu Jinping mei)
sequels
“song on natures of medicines” (yaoxing ge)
soul loss
The Soul’s Return (Huanhun ji). See The Peony Pavilion
static congestion (yu)
Stone Mountain Medical Cases (Shishan yi’an)
stone woman
The Story of the Stone (Shitou ji)
The Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji)
Sun Wukong (“Monkey”)
syphilis
Systematic Materia Medica (Bencao gangmu)
talisman
Tang Ao
Tu Long
tuberculosis. See consumption and fei jiehe
venereal disease
vernacular fiction
vernacular knowledge. See popular knowledge
Wang Xifeng
wenren. See literati
wind
word games
worms
Xiaoqing
xiaoshuo
Ximen Qing
Xu Dachun
Xue Baochai
Yan Shifan
yangmei. See syphilis
yi’an. See medical cases
yinyang
Yingying. See Cui Yingying
yixue. See medicine
zhang. See miasmas
Zhang Zhupo
Zhou Zuoren
Zhu Zhenheng