<桑韓醫談>과 <桑韓醫問答> 비교 연구 - 대화 방식 및 내용적 특성을 중심으로 -

Abstract

‘Pil-dam-chang-su-jib’(collection of conversation by writing about poetry or sentences) which was remained in Japan through the dispatching of Tong-sin mission belong to the Joseon dynasty is a valuable historical records directly to verify sincere relationships with Korea and Japan in the past. At the center of the ‘Pil-dam-chang-su-jib’, a conversation of senators who was technocrat both countries at that time was not a little contained. Because they need to exchange information and opinions which they had been curious at an appointed hour, the most impending medical problems of that period had to be brought out in the senator’s ‘Pil-dam-chang-su-jib’ and the value of material is high as much. If you examine the ‘Pil-dam’ records which was exchanged from senators to senators of both countries at that time, you can directly confirm the universality and difference of the medical science and medicine tradition of various East Asian countries. Also it can be an opportunity to organize the customs history through the studying an illness, medicines and a remedy. The necessity of the investigation about medical related conversation by writing is in this place. The purpose of a paper was in consolidation to a base of translation and investigation hereafter to consider the characters embodied in medical conversation in the first half of 18th centuries. The researcher translate the 1711 data ‘Sang-han-ui-dam’ and 1748 data 'Sang-han-ui-mun-dab’ up to now. Two data were published at an interval of about 30 year’s in Japan. That was regularized medical conversations between Korean and Japanese senators and it was display the essence through the each originality enough. ‘Sang-han-ui-dam’ was collection of conversation between Du-mun Kim and a herb doctor Syunpo Gitao in Ogaki, Gifu province, Japan at same year. ‘Sang-han-ui-mun-dab’ was collection of conversation between Seung-su Joe and a herb doctor Seunko Kawamura in Dong-kyung, Japan at the same year. The first half of 18th century medical conversation by writing had been a foundation of the rational description system at the coming medical conversation to change the description system according to the envoy’s coming situation. The other side, to use of questions and answers form gives presence and reality at the conversation by writing. So, conversation was let the readers to gain the feeling of movement. Also, the contents are substantially reflected the long history of Eastern medical and revealed medical science, treatment reality at that time. Not correspondent with normal collection of conversation by writing, the medical conversation by writing shows a special quality at rich material to confirm the technocrat’s identity. After considering with the all factors above, the first half of 18th century’s medical conversation materials are certificated remarkably valuable materials to the cultural history around the physician at that time.