일제강점기 『單方新編』의 편제와 내용

Abstract

In this paper, the debates on the bibliographic character and authors of the 'Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)', the popular medical book circulated in the era of Japanese Colonization of Korea, was explored through comprehensive examination of its contents. The 'Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)' which was compiled in the early 20th century is equipped with the style of popular and simple medical book mainly containing simple prescripthions employed easily available single medicine or simple materials. Particularly, the traditional folk remedies were held in contempt compared with the contemporaneous modern western medicine started to be introduced into at the time and even were excluded because they were regarded as superstitions when the 'Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)' was compiled during the period estimated from the end of the Korean Empire to the era under the Japanese compulsive ruling, but contrarily, the book has also been appraised that it had been playing a great role based on traditional & empirical prescriptions for the self-help of contemporary people sho had to cope with the poor environment of medical care. The compiler of this book, who has been regarded as the author of this book, was also examined. The authors, the 'Juchon Shin-man' and 'Dasan Jeong Yak-yong' who were deeply versed in medicine through attainments obtatined from various books of medical prescription, were alike in that they commonly intended to the effective remedy based on simple prescriptions employed single medicine and provided the medical knowledge for people faced sith contemporary disasters of war and plague. And the ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’ which was compiled in later years contains the medical approaches and remedies of simple and single medicine prescriptions inherited from the books written by these two precursors thus they can be considered as the original authors of the book. Besides, the medical orientation and the inheritance from both precursors were also examined by inquiring into the relationship between ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’ and the books written by them such as ‘Juchonshinbang(舟村新方)’, ‘Chonbyeonghokchi(村病或治)’, and ‘Euiryeong(醫零)’ etc. In addition, the format of ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’ and that of the ‘Enlarged Danbangshinpyeon(增補單方新編)’ which has been reprinted several times since the publication of ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’ were also examined to discuss the difference between two books. Regarding the topics dealt with concrete disease symptoms, the unique contents in the ‘Mingan-Yukgyeongbyeonjeungbeop(民間 六經辨證法)’ which is comparable with those of ‘Yukgyeongbyeonjeung(六經辨證)’ contained in the ‘Sanghanron(傷寒論)’ were examined, and the characteristic remedies found from the ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’ which were inherited from the book of ‘Euiryeong(醫零)’ written by ‘Jeong yak-yong’ were also reviewed, and the remedies comprised of single or simple prescription of medicine(單方) contained in the 'Dongeuibogam(東醫寶鑑)' and in the section of Injeji(仁濟志) in the 'Imwongyeongjeji(林園經濟志)' were directly compared with those in the ‘Danbangshinpyeon(單方新編)’. The contents in the section of ‘Soahmun(小兒門, the Pediatrics)’ of ‘Danbangshinpyeon (單方新編)’ were also clarified that most of them were inherited from the contents of the ‘Juchonshinbang(舟村新方)’ which has been reputed as a book specialized in pediatrics, and in the section of ‘Changjongmun(瘡腫門, the section of tumors)’, it was identified that the abundant and diverse contemporary single or simple prescriptions for surgical treatment were employed.